Pre-Incarceration Rates of Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs among Black Men from Urban Counties
| Autor: | Dominiqueca Lewis, Danelle Stevens-Watkins, Paris B. Wheeler, Carlos Mahaffey, Joi-Sheree’ Knighton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Prescription drug Urban Population Substance-Related Disorders media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention 030508 substance abuse Kentucky Prison Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Medical prescription Prescription Drug Misuse media_common Aged business.industry Public health Prisoners Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Urban Studies Black or African American Hydrocodone 0305 other medical science business Disease transmission Demography medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 95(4) |
| ISSN: | 1468-2869 |
| Popis: | There are inconsistent findings regarding the rates of nonmedical prescription drug use (NMPDU) among Black Americans. The majority of previous studies used pharmaceutical names of drugs and relied on national data that excludes incarcerated populations, in which Black men are overrepresented. Therefore, the current study aimed to describe pre-incarceration rates of NMPDU among Black men in prison using culturally relevant alternative drug names. We recruited 208 incarcerated (adult age 18 or older) Black men nearing community reentry to urban counties from four state prisons in Kentucky. Results indicated the majority of participants engaged in lifetime NMPDU. The most commonly endorsed class of prescription drug was, “Other Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Tranquilizers” and the most commonly endorsed specific prescription drugs were “Syrup,” Lortab/Hydrocodone, and Xanax. There were significant age differences in the number of days that drugs were used in the year prior to incarceration. The current study contributes to the dearth of literature on NMPDU among Black Americans. These findings have implications for disease transmission, overdose risk, and culturally relevant data collection methods and interventions aimed at reducing NMPDU among Black men. |
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