… Background and Aims: Illicit drug use is an ongoing health and social issue in Canada. This
… of illicit drug use and its implications for suicidal behaviors, and household food insecurity in …

… and lifetime prescription opioid misuse and illicit drug use were not attenuated even when
… ability to explore additional parental or household factors that may affect food insecurity and …

… as measured by the gold standard 18-item US Household Food Security Scale and is …
in adult samples have found that food insecurity may contribute to illicit drug use [14,25] and …

… illicit drug use [1–3]. Most research about food insecurity in Canada focuses on low-income …
At the individual and household level, drug users are often said to be at an increased risk of …

… Household Food Security Survey Module. Outcomes were: any illicit substance use except
cannabis; licit or illicit … factor known to interact with substance use is food insecurity (FI). FI is …

… framework interprets food insecurity and illicit drug use as inextricably … Evidence suggests
that drug use drives food insecurity at the … and household food security, many drug users have …

… food insecurity would be associated with HIV seropositivity and increased prevalence of HIV
risk factors including STIs and illicit drug use. … used the standard Household Food Security …

… depressive symptoms and household food security status among … Household food insecurity
was measured using the … ), illicit drug use was based on self-report of illicit drug use in the …

… in a nationally representative survey was 35 % in households headed by single women)(1). …
This level is likely typical among illicit substance users. For example, among a group of …

… These estimates suggest a higher prevalence of food insecurity than US national
households more broadly (13%), 5 although there is reason to suspect that prevalence of …