High levels of self-reported prescription opioid use by HIV-positive individuals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19440935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abigail Norris Turner (0000-0003-2463-6399, The Ohio State University), Courtney N Maierhofer (0000-0003-3126-2022, The Ohio State University), Courtney Maierhofer, Nicholas T Funderburg, Nicholas Funderburg (0000-0003-3113-1217, The Ohio State University), Brandon Snyder (The Ohio State University), Kristi Small (0000-0002-3784-881X, The Ohio State University), Jan Clark (The Ohio State University), José A Bazan (0000-0002-8405-7156, The Ohio State University), Nicole C Kwiek (The Ohio State University), Jesse J Kwiek (0000-0003-4277-8315, Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1559-1565 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AIDS Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0121 • E-ISSN: 1360-0451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09540121.2016.1198746 |
| PMID | 27320493 |
| OpenAlex | W2461892802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 21 |
Prescription medication use (other than antiretroviral therapy (ART)) is highly prevalent among people living with HIV. Prescription medications may be used medically or non-medically: non-medical use includes using more medication than prescribed, using medication prescribed to someone else, or using medication for a purpose other than its prescribed use. During 12 weeks in 2014-2015, we characterized medical and non-medical prescription medication use among HIV-positive patients attending an academic medical center (n = 149) and a community clinic (n = 105). Separately for the past year and the past month, these 254 participants self-reported their use of prescription opioids, sedatives, stimulants, anti-anxiety medications, antipsychotic medications, and erectile dysfunction medications. Respondents were largely male (91%), aged 40 or older (61%), identified as gay or bisexual (79%), and were men who have sex with men (85%). ART use was nearly universal (95%). Nearly half (43%) of participants reported medical use of prescription opioids; 11% of the opioid use was reported as non-medical use. Anti-anxiety medication use was also frequent, and differed by site: 41% of community-clinic responders reported medical use of anti-anxiety medications compared to 23% of hospital clinic respondents who reported medical use. Prescription sedative use was also approximately twice as high among community-clinic participants, with medical use reported by 43% of respondents and non-medical use by 12%; in comparison, at the hospital clinic, sedative use was reported by 18% (medical) and 7% (non-medical) of participants. Stimulant use was rare in both sites. No demographic characteristic was significantly associated with medical or non-medical use of any prescription medication. The current focus of many studies on only non-medical prescription medication use not only underestimates the widespread exposure of HIV-positive individuals to these drugs, but may also underestimate potential adverse effects of prescription medications in this population
Anxiety · Family medicine · Medical prescription · Psychiatry · Sedative · Self-medication · HIV-related health complications and treatments · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.56 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |