作者
Andrea Fogarty, Patrick Rawstorne, Garrett Prestage, June Crawford, Jeffrey Grierson, Susan Kippax
发表日期
2007/2/1
期刊
AIDS care
卷号
19
期号
2
页码范围
295-301
出版商
Taylor & Francis Group
简介
Therapeutic use of marijuana has emerged as an important issue for people living with cancer, HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis. This paper examines therapeutic use of marijuana in the Positive Health cohort study, a longitudinal cohort study of men and women living with HIV/AIDS in NSW and Victoria, Australia. Factors that distinguish therapeutic use of marijuana from recreational use were assessed by comparisons on a range of social and health-related variables. The results show that among 408 participants, 59.8% reported some use of marijuana in the past six months. Of those participants (n=244), 55.7% reported recreational use only of marijuana and 44.3% report mixed use of marijuana for therapeutic and recreational purposes. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that participants who used marijuana for therapeutic purposes were significantly more likely than recreational-only users to …
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