TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecstasy use among hispanic and black substance users in New York City
AU - Ompad, Danielle C.
AU - Galea, Sandro
AU - Fuller, Crystal M.
AU - Edwards, Vincent
AU - Vlahov, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Urban Epidemiologic Studies at The New York Academy of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the Johns Hop-kins School of Public Health. He is also Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry at New York University Medical School, Adjunct Professor at Cornell Weill Medical School, and Visiting Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. Dr. Vlahov completed his B.S.N. and M.S. in Nursing at the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He has extensive experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of infectious disease and substance abuse epidemiological studies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Urban Health and has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse within the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Vlahov has received funding from the NIH and the CDC to conduct epidemiologic intervention studies of HIV prevention in Harlem and the South Bronx involving young, adult recent consent injection drug users and noninjection drug users.
Funding Information:
This study was partly funded by grants DA13146 and DA12801 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Surveillance data suggests that use of ecstasy in the U.S. is predominantly among white adolescent and young adults. To investigate ecstasy use among substance users in New York City we added questions to ongoing efforts to recruit heroin and cocaine users. Of 715 participants recruited, 58.3% were injection dug users (IDUs). The median age was 32 (range 17-64), 76.4% were male, 49.0% were currently homeless, 62.4% were Hispanic, 27.3% were black, and 34.5% were born outside the United States. Overall, 23.4% used ecstasy in their lifetime and 11.9% had used in the last-6 months. In multivariate logistic regression, correlates of lifetime ecstasy use included younger age, being born in the U.S., and current homelessness. We observed a significant interaction between injection drug use and race where, compared to black non-IDUs, Hispanic non-IDUs, and white IDUs were significantly more likely to have a history of lifetime ecstasy use while black IDUs were significantly less likely. These findings are limited to persons who use other drugs, but suggest that further investigation of ecstasy use in minority populations is warranted.
AB - Surveillance data suggests that use of ecstasy in the U.S. is predominantly among white adolescent and young adults. To investigate ecstasy use among substance users in New York City we added questions to ongoing efforts to recruit heroin and cocaine users. Of 715 participants recruited, 58.3% were injection dug users (IDUs). The median age was 32 (range 17-64), 76.4% were male, 49.0% were currently homeless, 62.4% were Hispanic, 27.3% were black, and 34.5% were born outside the United States. Overall, 23.4% used ecstasy in their lifetime and 11.9% had used in the last-6 months. In multivariate logistic regression, correlates of lifetime ecstasy use included younger age, being born in the U.S., and current homelessness. We observed a significant interaction between injection drug use and race where, compared to black non-IDUs, Hispanic non-IDUs, and white IDUs were significantly more likely to have a history of lifetime ecstasy use while black IDUs were significantly less likely. These findings are limited to persons who use other drugs, but suggest that further investigation of ecstasy use in minority populations is warranted.
KW - Ecstasy
KW - Epidemiology
KW - MDMA
KW - Minority health
KW - Substance use
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U2 - 10.1081/JA-200066960
DO - 10.1081/JA-200066960
M3 - Article
C2 - 16048824
AN - SCOPUS:23244446021
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 40
SP - 1399
EP - 1407
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 9-10
ER -