Early life sexual abuse as a risk factor for crack cocaine use in a sample of community-recruited women at high risk for illicit drug use

Mounting evidence of serious adverse consequences of childhood physical and sexual abuse has important implications for public health officials and care providers. Given the potential impact on social policy of this area of inquiry, programmatic research is needed for the validation of theoretical models across populations and over time. This study, based on a sample of high-risk youths, replicates a structural model that specified the influence of child physical and sexual abuse on self-derogation and drug use. Results suggest that for male and female youths, physical abuse and sexual victimization had a direct effect on self-derogation and illicit drug use, and an indirect effect on drug use that was mediated by self-derogation. Moreover, structural coefficients for the model were found to be identical across gender. Subsequent analyses demonstrated the equivalence of the structural model of child physical and sexual abuse on drug use across two study cohorts. Implications for the identification and treatment of youths in high-risk groups are discussed.

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The antecedents of women's crack cocaine abuse: Family substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression and illicit drug use

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment ◽

10.1016/0740-5472(93)90002-j ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 433-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 112

Author(s):

Carol J. Boyd

Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Drug Use ◽

Cocaine Abuse ◽

Crack Cocaine ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use

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New Estimates of the Effect of Marijuana and Cocaine Use on Wages

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979399404700306 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 454-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Robert Kaestner

Keyword(s):

Drug Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

National Longitudinal Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cocaine Use ◽

Wage Effects ◽

Positive Effect

Using the 1984 and 1988 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study provides an update of several previous cross-sectional estimates of the effect of illicit drug use on wages, as well as the first longitudinal estimates of that effect. The cross-sectional results, which are generally consistent with the surprising findings of previous research, suggest that illicit drug use has a large, positive effect on wages. The longitudinal estimates, which control for unobserved heterogeneity in the sample, are mixed: among men, the estimated wage effects of both marijuana and cocaine use are negative, but among women, the effect of cocaine use remains positive and large. Because the longitudinal model is imprecisely estimated, however, those results are inconclusive.

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Multi-level experiences and determinants of alcohol misuse and illicit drug use among occupational groups at high-risk of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: A thematic synthesis of qualitative findings

Global Public Health ◽

10.1080/17441692.2019.1679216 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (5) ◽

pp. 715-733

Author(s):

Monica O. Kuteesa ◽

Janet Seeley ◽

Sarah Cook ◽

Emily L. Webb

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Drug Use ◽

Alcohol Misuse ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Occupational Groups ◽

Thematic Synthesis ◽

Multi Level ◽

Sub Saharan

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Do men who have sex with men who report alcohol and illicit drug use before/during sex (chemsex) present moderate/high risk for substance use disorders?

Drug and Alcohol Dependence ◽

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107908 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 209 ◽

pp. 107908 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Thiago S. Torres ◽

Leonardo S. Bastos ◽

Luciana Kamel ◽

Daniel R.B. Bezerra ◽

Nilo M. Fernandes ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

High Risk ◽

Drug Use ◽

Substance Use Disorders ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Sex With Men

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Coping and emotion regulation profiles as predictors of nonmedical prescription drug and illicit drug use among high-risk young adults

Drug and Alcohol Dependence ◽

10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.01.024 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 132 (1-2) ◽

pp. 165-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Carolyn F. Wong ◽

Karol Silva ◽

Aleksandar Kecojevic ◽

Sheree M. Schrager ◽

Jennifer Jackson Bloom ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

High Risk ◽

Drug Use ◽

Prescription Drug ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use

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Illicit Drug Use in One's Social Network and in One's Neighborhood Predicts Individual Heroin and Cocaine Use

Annals of Epidemiology ◽

10.1016/s1047-2797(01)00225-3 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 389-394 ◽

Cited By ~ 64

Author(s):

Jennifer R Schroeder ◽

Carl A Latkin ◽

Donald R Hoover ◽

Aaron D Curry ◽

Amy R Knowlton ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Drug Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Cocaine Use

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Genetic liability, illicit drug use, life stress and psychotic symptoms: preliminary findings from the Edinburgh study of people at high risk for schizophrenia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology ◽

10.1007/s001270170038 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 36 (7) ◽

pp. 338-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 91

Author(s):

P. Miller ◽

S. M. Lawrie ◽

A. Hodges ◽

R. Clafferty ◽

R. Cosway ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Drug Use ◽

Life Stress ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Psychotic Symptoms ◽

Genetic Liability

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Adolescent High-Risk Behaviors and Orofacial Trauma

10.31487/j.ord.2019.01.01 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Adriana Modesto ◽

Kristen Pelczar ◽

Deborah Studen-Pavlovich ◽

Aaron M. Valasek ◽

Zachary Mills ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

High Risk ◽

Drug Use ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

High Risk Behaviors ◽

University Of Pittsburgh ◽

The University ◽

Physical Altercations

Aim: The objective of the study was to investigate if there was a relationship between high risk behaviors among adolescents and orofacial trauma. Material and Methods: The study used a cross-sectional retrospective design with data collected from electronic health records of over 4,000 patients treated in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine from May 2009 through September 2013. This study was approved by the University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board. Risk factors for trauma were obtained from each patient’s medical and social history and included tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use, tattoos, piercings, and mouthguard use during sports. Outcome measures used were history of broken bones or orofacial trauma. The odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of each risk factor in increasing risk for trauma outcomes were calculated. Chi-square tests were also performed with an alpha of 0.05. Results and Conclusions: A total of 2,609 patients were included in this study. Males (N=1,340) had statistically more often orofacial trauma than females, and were statistically more often exposed to all risk factors (tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use, tattoos, and physical altercations) than females with the exception of using piercings in body parts other than the ears and not wearing mouthguard for sports. Wearing mouthguard for sports decreased in 50% the risk of orofacial trauma (OR=0.53; 95% CI 0.42-0.68; p=0.00000001). Tobacco use and physical altercations increased the chance of broken bone, fractured tooth, and orofacial trauma in 2-fold (smoking, OR=1.85-2.28, 95% CI 1.3-2.96; physical altercations, OR=1.9-2.34; p=0.0005). Drinking and using illicit drugs increased the risk of broken bone (OR=1.9, 95% CI 1.37- 2.64; p=0.0001). Use of mouthguards for sports dramatically reduced the risk of orofacial trauma. Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use, and getting into physical altercations increased the risk of orofacial trauma.

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