Personal Network Structure and Substance Use in Women by 12Months Post Treatment Intake

Tracy, Elizabeth M.; Min, Meeyoung O.; Park, Hyunyong; Jun, MinKyoung; Brown, Suzanne; Francis, Meredith W.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2015.11.002

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“…103,104 For example, substance abuse is an individual-level behavior that is a risk factor for all forms of violence 8,13,15,42,72,76,105,106 and also a health outcome that is linked to risk factors at the community and relationship levels such as neighborhood poverty 107 and lack of social support. 108 Other risk factors at the individual level that are associated with increased risk for perpetration of almost all forms of violence include low educational achievement 5,42,76,79,109,110 lack of nonviolent coping skills, 5,18,27,75,76,79,80,111 poor behavioral control/impulsiveness, 5,18,29,52,75,76,79,111 history of violent victimization, 8,10–13,18,42,112 witnessing violence, 18,29,52,76,94,113,114 and psychological or mental health problems. 8,12,13,18,42,76,115 Conversely, improvements in nonviolent problem-solving skills have been found to be protective against perpetration of some forms of violence including child abuse and neglect, 116 teen dating violence, 117 youth violence, 118 and suicide.…”

Section: Risk and Protective Factors Across The Social Ecology*mentioning

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Connecting the Dots: State Health Department Approaches to Addressing Shared Risk and Protective Factors Across Multiple Forms of Violence

Wilkins

Myers

Kuehl

et al. 2018

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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Violence takes many forms, including intimate partner violence, sexual violence, child abuse and neglect, bullying, suicidal behavior, and elder abuse and neglect. These forms of violence are interconnected and often share the same root causes. They can also co-occur together in families and communities and can happen at the same time or at different stages of life. Often, due to a variety of factors, separate, “siloed” approaches are used to address each form of violence. However, understanding and implementing approaches that prevent and address the overlapping root causes of violence (risk factors) and promote factors that increase the resilience of people and communities (protective factors) can help practitioners more effectively and efficiently use limited resources to prevent multiple forms of violence and save lives. This article presents approaches used by 2 state health departments, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, to integrate a shared risk and protective factor approach into their violence prevention work and identifies key lessons learned that may serve to inform crosscutting violence prevention efforts in other states.

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Section: Risk and Protective Factors Across The Social Ecology*mentioning

confidence: 99%

Connecting the Dots: State Health Department Approaches to Addressing Shared Risk and Protective Factors Across Multiple Forms of Violence

Wilkins

Myers

Kuehl

et al. 2018

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

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“…In these families, substance-using behaviors are normalized, drug use initiation is common, and use is often a marker of transition to adulthood (Hedges, 2012). This is further demonstrated through social networks where the number of other substance users in a woman’s network can predict the severity of her substance use (Tracy et al, 2016). Considering the close-knit networks which characterize the cultural uniqueness of rural Appalachia (Jones, 2010), associations of relationships and drug use among women is an important area of study.…”

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Partner Relationships and Injection Sharing Practices among Rural Appalachian Women

Staton

Strickland

Tillson

et al. 2017

Women's Health Issues

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Background The role of relationships in initiating and maintaining women’s risk behaviors has been established. However, understanding factors that may underlie partner relationships and women’s risky drug use, particularly in rural contexts, is limited. This study is the first to examine the association between injecting partners and women’s risky injection practices as a function of relationship power perception. Methods Female participants were recruited from three rural jails in the Appalachian region. Women were randomly selected, provided informed consent, and screened for study eligibility criteria. This cross-sectional analysis focuses on women who inject drugs (WWID) during the year before entering jail (n=199). Main findings Approximately three-quarters (76%) reported having a recent main male sexual partner with a history of injection drug use (IDU). Although having a risky partner independently increased the likelihood of women reporting shared injection practices, perceptions of relationship power significantly moderated the effect on shared needle (AOR = 0.02 [0.003, 0.23]; p = .001) and shared works (AOR = 0.17 [0.03, 0.95]; p = .04) use. Conclusions This interaction indicated that for WWID with a recent injecting male partner, greater perception of relationship power was associated with a decreased likelihood of shared injection practices. Implications for clinical assessment and intervention are discussed.

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“…Previous studies have indicated the density of social networks are closely associated with risk behavior norms in both sexual [40,41] and drug risk behavior [15]. Furthermore, one study found that denser social networks were associated with a lower likelihood of substance use among women one year after treatment [42], while another [43] found social network density inversely associated with problem drinking. Similarly, the protective effect found in the current study may potentially be explained by increases in social support -or perhaps the increase in norm enforcement and social monitoring provided in dense networks.…”

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Not getting high with a little help from your friends: Social versus drug network correlates of marijuana use among YMSM

Janulis

Birkett

Phillips

et al. 2019

Addictive Behaviors

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Substantial evidence has documented the importance of social connections in shaping health and drug use behaviors among adolescents and young adults. The current study extends previous research into the associations between network characteristics and drug use behavior among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) by 1) examining multiple network characteristics, 2) simultaneously assessing multiple network types (i.e., social and drug use), and 3) examining change in network characteristics and drug use behavior over time. Data for the current study comes from RADAR, a longitudinal cohort study of YMSM. Latent growth curve models examined the change in frequency of marijuana use across four observations and individual and network correlates of this change including: demographics, drug network size, drug network density, social network size, and social network density. Baseline frequency of marijuana use was positively associated with drug network size and density, while it was inversely related to social network size and density. In addition, increasing frequency of marijuana use was associated with increases in drug network size and density, while it was associated with decreases in social network size. These findings highlight the complexity of multiple network types (e.g., drug and social) and network structures (e.g., size and density) in understanding drug use behavior among YMSM. Furthermore, as changes in drug and social networks may be indicative of changes in marijuana use, peer relationships may be especially important in understanding an individual's trajectories of marijuana use.

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Personal Network Structure and Substance Use in Women by 12Months Post Treatment Intake

Cited by 27 publications

References 59 publications

Connecting the Dots: State Health Department Approaches to Addressing Shared Risk and Protective Factors Across Multiple Forms of Violence

Connecting the Dots: State Health Department Approaches to Addressing Shared Risk and Protective Factors Across Multiple Forms of Violence

Partner Relationships and Injection Sharing Practices among Rural Appalachian Women

Not getting high with a little help from your friends: Social versus drug network correlates of marijuana use among YMSM

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