Abstract In the United States (US), more than 12 million women reported illicit drug use in
the past month. Drug use has been linked to increased risk for HIV, but little is known about …

Abstract Purpose of Review The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough overview of
methods used for recruitment, network data collection, and network data management in a …

Opioid‐related overdose deaths among African Americans have only recently received
national attention despite evidence of increase in death rates among this population …

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a link-tracing procedure used in epidemiologic
research on hidden or hard-to-reach populations in which subjects recruit others via their …

Background Social networks play a crucial role in mediating the risk environments of
individuals, especially minoritized groups such as people who use opioids or who inject …

Intensive sociometric network data were collected from a typical respondent driven sample
(RDS) of 528 people who inject drugs residing in Hartford, Connecticut in 2012–2013. This …

Analytically distinct estimators have been proposed for the calculation of population-based
estimates derived from respondent-driven sampling (RDS), yet there have been few …

Across several continents, epidemics of drug-related harms have been expanding from
cities to rural areas (Mack, Jones, & Ballesteros, 2017; Palombi, St Hill, Lipsky, Swanoski, & …

Purpose Kentucky experiences a disproportionate burden of substance use disorder (SUD),
particularly in rural areas of the state. Multiple factors increase vulnerability to SUD and limit …

Objectives: Few studies have considered how providers make decisions to prescribe
buprenorphine to new patients with opioid use disorder. This study examined the relative …