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Parental attachment, drug use, and facultative sexual strategies

Biodemography and Social Biology, 1995
It is often asserted that sexual promiscuity and drug abuse appears to share a common etiology in poor parental attachment. This study explores this claim empirically among 480 college students. Other variables--religiosity, masculinity/femininity, sex, age, and physical appearance--that may enhance or reduce the incidence of promiscuity and drug use ...
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Sexual identity, sexual behavior, and drug use behaviors among people who use drugs in the rural U.S.

Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
People who use drugs (PWUD) are at risk of HIV infection, but the frequency and distribution of transmission-associated behaviors within rural communities is not well understood. Further, while interventions designed to more explicitly affirm individuals' sexual orientation and behaviors may be more effective, descriptions of behavior variability by ...
Wiley D, Jenkins, Lauren B, Beach, John, Schneider, Samuel R, Friedman, Mai T, Pho, Suzan, Walters, Jerel, Ezell, April M, Young, Caitie, Hennessy, William C, Miller, Vivian F, Go, Christina, Sun, David W, Seal, Ryan P, Westergaard, Heidi M, Crane, Rob J, Fredericksen, Stephanie A, Ruderman, Scott, Fletcher, Jimmy, Ma, J A, Delaney, Karma, Plaisance, Judith, Feinberg, Gordon S, Smith, P Todd, Korthuis, Thomas J, Stopka, Peter D, Friedmann, William, Zule, Mike, Winer   +27 more
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Sexual Orientation Disparities in the Use of Emerging Drugs

Substance Use & Misuse, 2016
Prescription drug, e-cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and synthetic marijuana use has risen dramatically in the United States over the past decade.This paper investigates the use of risky substances among adolescents, and examines disparities between sexual minority (i.e., mostly heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual; LGB) and heterosexual adolescents ...
Jeremy T, Goldbach, Ethan H, Mereish, Claire, Burgess   +2 more
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Sexual issues and condom use among injecting drug users

AIDS Care, 1993
Recent surveys of injecting drug users reveal that their injecting behaviours have changed in the light of HIV, but their sexual behaviours have not and, in particular, they remain reluctant to use condoms to reduce the risks of sexual transmission. In an attempt to explore this issue further the present study assessed the behaviours and attitudes of ...
D, White, K, Phillips, G, Mulleady, C, Cupitt   +3 more
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Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs and Sexual Risk Behaviors

Pediatrics, 2016
BACKGROUND: Substance use is associated with sexual risk behaviors among youth, but little is known about whether nonmedical prescription drug use, an increasingly common behavior, is associated with sexual risk behaviors.
Heather B, Clayton, Richard, Lowry, Euna, August, Sherry, Everett Jones   +3 more
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Drug Injection and Sexual Mixing Patterns of Drug-Using Male Sex Workers

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2003
Drug-using male sex workers (DUMSWs) are known to have large numbers of drug injection and sex partners.The purpose of this study was to describe the assortative and disassortative drug injection and sexual mixing patterns of DUMSWs. Implications of the high rates of disassortative mixing patterns of DUMSWs for HIV infection are discussed. Implications
Mark L, Williams, Anne M, Bowen, Sandra, Timpson, K, Blair Keel   +3 more
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Bufotenine use in drug facilitated sexual assault

Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2022
Esperanza, Navarro Escayola, Clara, Vega Vega, Cristina, Hernando Torrecilla   +2 more
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Drug-Using Women's Sexual Risk: An Event Analysis

AIDS and Behavior, 2000
Using event analysis, this study describes the most recent sexual events of drug-using women and their male partners and identifies relationship-specific and event-specific determinants of condom use. Women drug users (n = 320) were recruited from the streets of East Harlem.
Stephanie Tortu, James McMahon, Rahul Hamid, Alan Neaigus   +3 more
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Drug Use among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations

2020
Abstract Based on current epidemiological data, sexual and gender minorities present with significantly higher rates of drug use disorders compared with their heterosexual or cisgender counterparts. Using minority stress theory and syndemics theory, the current chapter discusses prevalence rates, psychosocial correlates, and health ...
Tyrel J. Starks, Cynthia M. Cabral, Ali J. Talan   +2 more
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Drug Use and Sexual Activity on a College Campus

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1972
A questionnaire study on one college campus revealed that drug users were significantly more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, to engage in it earlier in life, and to engage in it regularly and with a greater variety of partners. This held true regardless of the specific indicator of drug use employed, as well as when the two control variables ...
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