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Werb, Dan; Kerr, Thomas; Fast, Danya; Qi, Jiezhi; Montaner, Julio; Wood, Evan

Elsevier

We compared drug-related behaviors, including initiation of drug use, among street youth residing in two adjacent neighborhoods in Vancouver. One neighborhood, the Downtown Eastside (DTES), features a large open-air illicit drug market. In multivariate analysis, having a primary illicit income source (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=2.64, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.16–6.02) and recent injection heroin use (AOR=4.25, 95% CI: 1.26–14.29) were positively associated with DTES residence, while recent non-injection crystal methamphetamine use (AOR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.16–0.94) was negatively associated with DTES residence. In univariate analysis, dealing drugs (odds ratio [OR]=5.43, 95% CI: 1.24–23.82) was positively associated with initiating methamphetamine use in the DTS compared to the DTES. These results demonstrate the importance of considering neighborhood variation when developing interventions aimed at reducing drug-related harms among street-involved youth at various levels of street entrenchment.

Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)

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2017-12-08

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63860

Werb, D., Kerr, T., Fast, D., Qi, J., Montaner, J. S. G., & Wood, E. (2010). Drug-related risks among street youth in two neighborhoods in a Canadian setting. Health and Place, 16(5), 1061-1067.

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