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Inability to Access Addiction Treatment Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting Phillips, Mark; DeBeck, Kora; Desjarlais, Timothy; Morrison, Tracy; Feng, Cindy X.; Kerr, Thomas; Wood, Evan

Abstract

From Sept 2005 to May 2012, 1015 street-involved youth were enrolled into the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS), a prospective cohort of youth aged 14- 26 who use illicit drugs in Vancouver Canada. Data was collected through semiannual interviewer administered questionnaires. Generalized estimating equation (GEE) logistic regression was used to identify factors independently associated with being unable to access addiction treatment. The enclosed manuscript notes the implications and limitations of this study, as well as possible directions for future research. This study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR).

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Inability to Access Addiction Treatment Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting
Creator
Phillips, Mark; DeBeck, Kora; Desjarlais, Timothy; Morrison, Tracy; Feng, Cindy X.; Kerr, Thomas; Wood, Evan
Contributor
British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
Date Issued
2014-03-12
Description
From Sept 2005 to May 2012, 1015 street-involved youth were enrolled into the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS), a prospective cohort of youth aged 14- 26 who use illicit drugs in Vancouver Canada. Data was collected through semiannual interviewer administered questionnaires. Generalized estimating equation (GEE) logistic regression was used to identify factors independently associated with being unable to access addiction treatment. The enclosed manuscript notes the implications and limitations of this study, as well as possible directions for future research. This study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR).
Subject
Street-involved youth; Addiction treatment; Homelessness; Aboriginal ethnicity; Prospective cohort
Geographic Location
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2017-01-23
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0340659
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60280
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Other UBC; Non UBC; Medicine, Department of
Citation
Phillips, M., DeBeck, K., Desjarlais, T., Morrison, T., Feng, C., Kerr, T., & Wood, E. (2014). Inability to Access Addiction Treatment Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting. Substance Use & Misuse, 49(10), 1233–1240
Publisher DOI
10.3109/10826084.2014.891618
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher; Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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