Broken lives: Fights, fractures, and motor vehicle accidents among heroin users entering detoxification

Highlights • More than quarter of heroin users reported substance-related fight in the past year. • Cocaine, hazardous alcohol use, younger age associated with fighting, but not gender. • One in ten heroin users reported fracture or substance-related driving accident in the past year. • Physical tra...

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Veröffentlicht in:Drug and alcohol dependence 2017-08, Vol.177, p.194-198
Hauptverfasser: Stein, Michael D, Anderson, Bradley J, Bailey, Genie L
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • More than quarter of heroin users reported substance-related fight in the past year. • Cocaine, hazardous alcohol use, younger age associated with fighting, but not gender. • One in ten heroin users reported fracture or substance-related driving accident in the past year. • Physical trauma rates were similar to those in persons seeking alcohol detoxification.
ISSN:0376-8716
1879-0046
DOI:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.04.009