Injecting transition risk and depression among Mexican American non-injecting heroin users

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 125, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Cepeda, Alice ^a   Kaplan, Charles ^a   Neaigus, Alan ^c   Cano, Miguel Ángel ^d   Villarreal, Yolanda ^b   Valdez, Avelardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; IDU; Mexican American; Non injecting heroin users; Social risk networks; Transition to injecting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DETENTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL NETWORK; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865553760     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.05.035     Document Type: Article

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