DRUG USE AND BARRIERS TO USE OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES

This paper examines barriers to health care utilization and the correlates associated with these barriers. As part of a larger study of health services utilization, the study sample of 1085 including injection drug users, other chronic users of heroin or cocaine, and a demographically similar group...

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Published in:Substance use & misuse 2001-01, Vol.36 (6-7), p.789-804
Main Authors: McCoy, Clyde B., Metsch, Lisa R., Chitwood, Dale D., Miles, Christine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Adult
Barriers
Cocaine
Constraints
Delivery Systems
Drug Abuse
Drug abusers
Drug Injection
Drug use
Female
Florida
Health Care Utilization
Health services
Health Services Accessibility
Health Services Needs and Demand
Help Seeking Behavior
Heroin
Humans
Male
Miami, Florida
Multivariate Analysis
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
Treatment Refusal - psychology
USA
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Summary:This paper examines barriers to health care utilization and the correlates associated with these barriers. As part of a larger study of health services utilization, the study sample of 1085 including injection drug users, other chronic users of heroin or cocaine, and a demographically similar group who had used neither heroin nor cocaine, was selected based on the criterion of not having received health care for at least one health problem within the previous 12 months. Both categories of chronic drug users were more likely than non-users not to want health care treatment and to put off seeking needed health care. [Translations are provided in the International Abstracts Section of this issue.]
ISSN:1082-6084
1532-2491
DOI:10.1081/JA-100104091