Table 1 Demographic characteristics and injection risk behaviours over the past 6 months
From: Frequent food insecurity among injection drug users: correlates and concerns
Male | 72.2% |
Never married | 54% |
Completed < high school | 53% |
Employed full or part time | 5.6% |
Not employed or disabled | 86.1% |
Self-employed | 7.6% |
Average 6 month income all sources | $4,000 |
Depressed/hopeless past 30days | 55% |
Moves 0 to 2 times | 54% |
Injected crack | 80% |
Injected opiates | 83% |
Injected outside | 78% |
Slept outdoors | 51% |
HIV positive (self-reported) | 3% |
Hepatitis C positive (self-reported) | 53% |
Re-used a needle | 21% |
Reused water | 19% |
Reused a cooker | 37% |
Re-used a filter | 18% |