Associations among drug acquisition and use behaviors, psychosocial attributes, and opioid-involved overdoses.
BMC Public Health
; 24(1): 1692, 2024 Jun 25.
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ABSTRACT
AIMS:
This study sought to develop and assess an exploratory model of how demographic and psychosocial attributes, and drug use or acquisition behaviors interact to affect opioid-involved overdoses.DESIGN:
We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA/CFA) to identify a factor structure for ten drug acquisition and use behaviors. We then evaluated alternative structural equation models incorporating the identified factors, adding demographic and psychosocial attributes as predictors of past-year opioid overdose. SETTING ANDPARTICIPANTS:
We used interview data collected for two studies recruiting opioid-misusing participants receiving services from a community-based syringe services program. The first investigated current attitudes toward drug-checking (N = 150). The second was an RCT assessing a telehealth versus in-person medical appointment for opioid use disorder treatment referral (N = 270). MEASUREMENTS Demographics included gender, age, race/ethnicity, education, and socioeconomic status. Psychosocial measures were homelessness, psychological distress, and trauma. Self-reported drug-related risk behaviors included using alone, having a new supplier, using opioids with benzodiazepines/alcohol, and preferring fentanyl. Past-year opioid-involved overdoses were dichotomized into experiencing none or any.FINDINGS:
The EFA/CFA revealed a two-factor structure with one factor reflecting drug acquisition and the second drug use behaviors. The selected model (CFI = .984, TLI = .981, RMSEA = .024) accounted for 13.1% of overdose probability variance. A latent variable representing psychosocial attributes was indirectly associated with an increase in past-year overdose probability (ß = .234, p = .001), as mediated by the EFA/CFA identified latent variables drug acquisition (ß = .683, p < .001) and drug use (ß = .567, p = .001). Drug use behaviors (ß = .287, p = .04) but not drug acquisition (ß = .105, p = .461) also had a significant, positive direct effect on past-year overdose. No demographic attributes were significant direct or indirect overdose predictors.CONCLUSIONS:
Psychosocial attributes, particularly homelessness, increase the probability of an overdose through associations with risky drug acquisition and drug-using behaviors. Further research is needed to replicate these findings with populations at high-risk of an opioid-related overdose to assess generalizability and refine the metrics used to assess psychosocial characteristics.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos Relacionados con Opioides
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
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BMC Public Health
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2024
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Article
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Estados Unidos