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HIV Risk among Urban, Female Crack Cocaine Users. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 120
Using data from a NIDA-funded study that randomly
assigned female substance users to one of three
intervention groups, this work stratified crack
cocaine using women into groups according to
criminal justice history: 1) St. Louis Female Drug
Court referred; 2) community recruited with lifetime
arrest; and 3) community recruited with no lifetime
arrest history. Analyses focused on determining
whether women differed on health and behavioral risk
factors upon enrollment; whether the enhanced
interventions were more effective than the NIDA
standard at reducing high-risk drug use and sexual
behaviors post-intervention; and whether drug use
behaviors changed with greater frequency than sexual
risk behaviors, in response to the HIV intervention
between baseline, 4 and 12 month follow-up
interviews.
Findings are presented in detail and, overall,
confirm that cocaine using women can change high-
risk behaviors, although further efforts to tailor
interventions are necessary.
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