Typology of drug use in United Kingdom men who have sex with men and associations with socio-sexual characteristics

Analyses of drug use patterns in men who have sex with men (MSM) have generally focused on examining individual drugs in isolation (Digiusto& Rawstorne, 2013; Vosburgh, Mansergh, Sullivan,& Purcell, 2012), or have examined polydrug use as a unitary variable (Boone, Cook,& Wilson, 2013; Daskalopoulou et al., 2014) without regard to types of drugs combined. This leaves aside two important points for analysis —namely, understanding how patterns of specific drug use cluster together within MSM, and how different drug use patterns are associated with socio-sexual variables.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - February 2, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: G.J. Melendez-Torres, Adam Bourne, David Reid, Ford Hickson, Chris Bonell, Peter Weatherburn Source Type: research