Changing Needle Practices in Community Outreach and Methadone Treatment

Changing Needle Practices in Community Outreach and Methadone Treatment

This pretest/posttest study used two samples of injecting drug users (184 from street outreach and 103 from a methadone program) to assess drug use and human immunodeficiency virus risk practices. The improvement in risk behaviors at posttest suggests that intervention programs were agents of change...

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Published in:Evaluation and program planning Vol. 17; no. 4; p. 371
Main Author: Wechsberg, Wendee M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 1994
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Behavior Change
Change Agents
Community Programs
Disease Control
Drug Use
Injections (Medicine)
Intervention
Methadone
Outreach Programs
Pretests Posttests
Program Evaluation
Risk
Risk Reduction
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Summary:This pretest/posttest study used two samples of injecting drug users (184 from street outreach and 103 from a methadone program) to assess drug use and human immunodeficiency virus risk practices. The improvement in risk behaviors at posttest suggests that intervention programs were agents of change. (SLD)
ISSN:0149-7189
DOI:10.1016/0149-7189(94)90037-X