作者
Kasun Rathnayake, Paul A Agius, Bernadette Ward, Matthew Hickman, Lisa Maher, Mark Stoové, Joseph S Doyle, Margaret Hellard, Anna Wilkinson, Brendan Quinn, Sione Crawford, Keith Sutton, Paul Dietze
发表日期
2023/8
期刊
Addiction
卷号
118
期号
8
页码范围
1557-1568
简介
Background and Aims
Few studies of the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) public health measures on drug markets and drug use patterns have used longitudinal data. We aimed to examine whether COVID‐19 measures were associated with increases in methamphetamine price, decreases in methamphetamine use frequency and subsequent changes in secondary outcomes of other drug use frequency in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Design
Longitudinal analysis framework was used from a longitudinal cohort of people who use methamphetamine.
Setting
Victoria state, Australia.
Participants
One hundred eighty‐five VMAX study participants who reported a methamphetamine purchase after the onset of the pandemic were used for the price paid analysis. Methamphetamine or other drug use frequency analysis was performed using 277 participants who used …
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