TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Childhood sexual abuse and age at initiation of injection drug use
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Ompad, Danielle C.
A1  - Ikeda, Robin M.
A1  - Shah, Nina
A1  - Fuller, Crystal M.
A1  - Bailey, Susan
A1  - Morse, Edward
A1  - Kerndt, Peter
A1  - Maslow, Carey
A1  - Wu, YingFeng
A1  - Vlahov, David
A1  - Garfein, Richard
A1  - Strathdee, Steffanie A.
SP  - 703
EP  - 709
VL  - 95
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVES: We examined the relation between childhood sexual abuse and injection drug use initiation among young adult injection drug users. METHODS: We used mixed effect linear models to compare age at first injection among 2143 young injection drug users by first sexual abuse age categories. RESULTS: The participants were predominantly male (63.3%) and White (52.8%). Mean age and age at first injection were 23.7 and 19.6 years, respectively; 307 participants (14.3%) reported childhood sexual abuse. After adjustment for gender, race/ethnicity, noninjection drug use before first injection drug use, and recruitment site, childhood sexual abuse was independently associated with younger age at first injection. CONCLUSIONS: Childhood sexual abuse was associated with earlier initiation of injection drug use. These data emphasize the need to integrate substance abuse prevention with postvictimization services for children and adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2003.019372
ID  - ref1
ER  -