Neighborhood effects on drug reporting
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Published on: July 3, 2015
Jerome Richardson1, Michael Fendrich, Timothy P Johnson
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. jrichardson@psych.uic.edu
Aims:
To examine whether neighborhood racial characteristics are associated with the under reporting of life time cocaine/crack use.
Design:
A household survey of high-risk communities with above-average admissions to state-supported drug and alcohol treatment programs.
Setting:
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Participants:
A total of 303 adults.
Measures:
Self-reported use of cocaine/crack during a respondent's life time, hair test assays for cocaine use and level of neighborhood diversity measured using the Simpson Index.
Findings:
Respondents from more segregated neighborhoods were more likely than those from diverse neighborhoods to under report life time cocaine/crack use.
Conclusions:
Neighborhood racial characteristics should be considered as an important factor in household surveys on illicit substance use.
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