TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Exploring prospective predictors of illicit drug-toxicity deaths: evidence from the General Social Survey
JO  - Substance use and misuse
A1  - Feigelman, William
A1  - Rosen, Zohn
SP  - 1479
EP  - 1489
VL  - 50
IS  - 11
N2  - BACKGROUND: This study was based on over 30,000 U.S. respondents who completed General Social Surveys between 1978 and 2002. AIMS: We approached these respondents prospectively, comparing and contrasting the responses of those who subsequently died from drug-poisonings (N = 135) with all respondents who were still living, N = 23,559. <br><br>METHOD: We employed cross-tabulation and logistic regression analyses to test for statistically significant differences between drug-poisoning death casualties and all living respondents. <br><br>RESULTS: Consistent with past research findings, younger males were over-represented among drug death casualties. Also consistent with past studies, drug casualties showed evidence of perceiving themselves as socially marginalized in comparison to living respondents: More reported themselves in poorer health, as having been sexual minority members during the last 5 years, as having spent their younger years in homes where parents' marriages disrupted, with fewer owning homes and feeling less satisfied about their financial situations. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These exploratory findings obtained from a general population survey reinforce findings from clinical studies and help advance clinical assessments of potential at-risk individuals who might be identified sooner, lest they succumb to future fatal drug poisonings.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1082-6084
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2015.1018548
ID  - ref1
ER  -