National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia.
Addict Behav. 2010 Oct;35(10):909-12. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.06.007. Epub 2010 Jun 10.
There is a scant amount of research investigating injecting drug use among people not selected on the basis of their injecting behaviour, and less attention has been given to stimulant users who may have a different experience with injecting drug use than opioid users who are more commonly studied. The current study aimed to investigate initiation to, and transition from, injecting drug use among a sentinel sample of regular ecstasy users in Australia. Participants were regular ecstasy users recruited across Australia in 2007 who were administered a structured interview that contained questions regarding initiation to injecting, reasons for injecting cessation, and likelihood of future injecting. Among those with a history of injecting drug use, injecting first occurred at a similar age to that of first ecstasy use. The majority did not inject themselves at the first occasion, and two-fifths were under the influence of other drugs at the time. Two-fifths of injectors had not injected in the past 6 months, with many relating this to concerns surrounding stigma. Route of drug administration is clearly not static, and the findings from this study suggest that some who have ceased injecting may still be at risk for future injecting.
针对未根据注射行为选择的人群开展的药物注射使用研究甚少，而针对可能与更常见的阿片类药物使用者具有不同药物注射使用体验的兴奋剂使用者的研究则更少。本研究旨在调查澳大利亚一组定期使用摇头丸者中初次开始和过渡到药物注射使用的情况。2007 年在澳大利亚各地招募的定期使用摇头丸者参与了这项研究，他们接受了一项结构访谈，其中包含关于初次开始注射、停止注射的原因以及未来注射可能性的问题。在有药物注射使用史的人群中，初次注射发生的年龄与初次使用摇头丸的年龄相似。大多数人在第一次注射时并未自己进行注射，五分之二的人在当时受到其他药物的影响。五分之二的注射者在过去 6 个月内没有进行注射，许多人提到这与对污名的担忧有关。药物管理途径显然并非一成不变，本研究结果表明，一些已停止注射的人仍可能存在未来注射的风险。
