Comorbidity and Risk Behaviors Among Drug Users Not in Treatment

✍ Scribed by Mark E. Johnson; Christiane Brems; Rebecca S. Wells; Shelley A. Theno; Dennis G. Fisher

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 666 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1055-3835
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1874.2003.tb00175.x

✦ Synopsis

In a sample of 700 drug users, 64% evidenced comorbidity (i.e., coexisting substance use and psychiatric disorders). Robust relationships between the presence of comorbidity and increased levels of risk behavior, such as needle sharing and trading sex for money, were revealed.