Curtin University Homepage
  • Library
  • Help
    • Admin

    espace - Curtin’s institutional repository

    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    View Item 
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item
    • espace Home
    • espace
    • Curtin Research Publications
    • View Item

    Is low BMI associated with specific drug use among injecting drug users?

    Access Status
    Fulltext not available
    Authors
    McIlwraith, F.
    Betts, K.
    Jenkinson, R.
    Hickey, S.
    Burns, L.
    Alati, Rosa
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citation
    McIlwraith, F. and Betts, K. and Jenkinson, R. and Hickey, S. and Burns, L. and Alati, R. 2014. Is low BMI associated with specific drug use among injecting drug users?. Substance Use and Misuse. 49 (4): pp. 374-382.
    Source Title
    Substance Use and Misuse
    DOI
    10.3109/10826084.2013.841246
    ISSN
    1082-6084
    School
    School of Public Health
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73394
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Body mass index (BMI) of a sample of people who regularly inject drugs (N = 781) was examined to gauge the impact of specific types of drug use. Cross-sectional interviews were undertaken in 2010 as part of a national monitoring program funded by the Australian Government. Latent class analysis identified three groups of drug users, with heroin users at 3.4 times the risk of being underweight compared with amphetamine users, and amphetamine users were at almost twice the odds of being obese compared with lower level morphine users. Nutrition should play a part in harm minimization. © 2014 Informa Healthcare USA, Inc.

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • An ethnographic study of recreational drug use and identity management among a network of electronic dance music enthusiasts in Perth, Western Australia
      Green, Rachael Renee (2012)
      This thesis explores the social contexts and cultural significance of amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) and alcohol use among a social network of young adults in Perth, Western Australia. The study is positioned by the ...
    • Agency and exchange: an ethnography of a heroin marketplace
      Dwyer, Robyn (2009)
      This thesis is concerned with the exchange of heroin in localised, street-based marketplaces. Commercial exchange of heroin in such sites has been a characteristic of the Australian heroin scene since the early 1990s. ...
    • Exploring the micro-politics of normalised drug use in the social lives of a group of young 'party drug' users in Melbourne, Australia
      Pennay, Amy (2012)
      Young people today live in what some scholars and commentators have defined as a 'post-modern' era, characterised by globalisation, the internet, mass media, production and consumption. Post-modernity has seen a change ...
    Advanced search

    Browse

    Communities & CollectionsIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument TypeThis CollectionIssue DateAuthorTitleSubjectDocument Type

    My Account

    Admin

    Statistics

    Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

    Follow Curtin

    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 
    • 

    CRICOS Provider Code: 00301JABN: 99 143 842 569TEQSA: PRV12158

    Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy statement | Accessibility

    Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.