Cunningham John A, Selby Peter L, Kypri Kypros, Humphreys Keith N
School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle, Toronto, Ontario, CA.
Med Inform Internet Med. 2006 Mar;31(1):53-8. doi: 10.1080/14639230600562816.
Expanding Internet-based interventions for substance use will have little benefit if heavy substance users are unlikely to have Internet access. This paper explored whether access to the Internet was a potential barrier to the provision of services for smokers, drinkers and illicit drug users.
As part of a general population telephone survey of adults in Ontario, Canada, respondents were asked about their use of different drugs and also about their use of the Internet.
Pack-a-day smokers were less likely (48%) to have home Internet access than non-smokers (69%), and current drinkers (73%) were more likely to have home access than abstainers (50%). These relationships remained true even after controlling for demographic characteristics. Internet access was less clearly associated with cannabis or cocaine use.
Even though there is variation in access among smokers, drinkers and illicit drug users, the World Wide Web remains an excellent opportunity to potentially provide services for substance abusers who might never access treatment in person because, in absolute terms, the majority of substance abusers do use the Internet.
如果重度物质使用者不太可能接入互联网，那么扩展基于互联网的物质使用干预措施将收效甚微。本文探讨了互联网接入是否是为吸烟者、饮酒者和非法药物使用者提供服务的潜在障碍。
作为对加拿大安大略省成年人进行的一般人群电话调查的一部分，受访者被问及他们对不同药物的使用情况以及互联网使用情况。
每天吸一包烟的人（48%）比不吸烟者（69%）在家中接入互联网的可能性更低，而当前饮酒者（73%）比戒酒者（50%）在家中接入互联网的可能性更高。即使在控制了人口统计学特征之后，这些关系仍然成立。互联网接入与大麻或可卡因使用之间的关联不太明显。
尽管吸烟者、饮酒者和非法药物使用者在互联网接入方面存在差异，但万维网仍然是一个为那些可能永远不会亲自接受治疗的药物滥用者提供潜在服务的绝佳机会，因为从绝对数量来看，大多数药物滥用者确实使用互联网。
