Condom use rates for specific sexual behaviors among opioid abusers entering treatment

A Study of the Sexuality of Opiate Addicts

“…These numbers did not differ from the control group and are in accordance with the study by King, Brooner, Bigelow, and Schmidt (1994), who found that the mean number of sexual partners in their sample showed rates of monogamy and sexual abstinence comparable to the general population. Our percentage is nevertheless a little higher than the 50% of stable relationships found by Müller (1995) in a sample of 654 male and female drug users.…”

“…This finding is in agreement with the work by King et al (1994). Sibthorpe, Fleming, Tesslaar, and Gould (1991) found that in their sample of 161 intravenous drug users, 55% had practiced unsafe sex in the past year.…”

“…King et al (1994) found that up to 95% of their sample had been sexually active in the past year. Strang, Powis, Griffiths, and Gossop (1994) reported a prevalence of heterosexual anal sex in the past year in 23% in his male sample and 20% in his female sample.…”

HIV risk behaviors during pharmacologic treatment for opioid dependence: A comparison of levomethadyl acetate hydrochloride, buprenorphine, and methadone

“…However, the RBI did not provide suitable baseline rates of condom use and formal analysis of condom use rates for this population could not be performed. Consistent with previous findings of low rates of condom use during MMT (King et al, 1994;Metzger et al, 1993), each of the three treatment groups reported low rates of condom use for the preceding month at Week 18. For instance, more than 50% of patients with data available in each group reported never using condoms (16/19 in the LAAM group, 19/29 in the METH group, and 16/21 in the BUP group) during treatment.…”

“…Three studies showed decreasing frequencies of prostitution (Bellis, 1993;Meandzija et al, 1994;Metzger et al, 1993), and two showed lower numbers of sex partners (Longshore et al, 1994;Metzger et al, 1993). In contrast, it appears that MMT has little effect on condom use rates, as two studies have shown similarly low rates of condom use for injection drug users in treatment and those out of treatment (King et al, 1994;Metzger et al, 1993). Despite the disagreement of some studies, the preponderance of evidence supports the view that MMT can reduce HIV exposure by decreasing some sexual risk behaviors.…”