Citation

Calsyn DA, Baldwin H, Niu X, Crits-Christoph P, Hatch-Maillette MA. Am. J. Addict. 2011; 20(3): 250-256.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington [Correction added after online publication 21 March 2011: Author degree updated.] Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1521-0391.2011.00123.x

PMID

21477053

PMCID

PMC3073854

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine if there is evidence for a causative link between sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol and risky sex for men in substance abuse treatment. Men in treatment participating in a multisite HIV prevention protocol who reported on baseline, 3, or 6 months computerized assessments the details of their most recent sexual events, and who reported having sexual events under the influence and not under the influence, and who reported most recent events that did and did not include condom use served as participants (n = 37). Safe sex was not significantly more likely to happen when participants were under the influence of drugs or alcohol during their most recent sexual event (48.3%) than when they were not under the influence (49%, p = .82). In this high-risk in treatment sample, a causative link between sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol and sexual risk behavior was not supported. (Am J Addict 2011;00:1--7).

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