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The reason why drug consumption rooms DCRs; with smoking rooms were selected for the provision of inhalative material is that the foils could be used in a legal environment and respondents could be reached again more easily for the second and third stages of the survey.
To what extent the proportion of the injecting population might be reached through these services is unclear. There are 24 DCRs in Germany, and the proportion of heroin smoking in most of the facilities, where heroin smoking is allowed, remains unclear. The survey was based on self-completed questionnaires. If and to what extent the staff was helping the clients in filling in the questionnaires is unclear since the staff was trained not to do so. However, in case the staff did so, this might influence the answers of the respondents.
However, the staff members were instructed to just offering the foils among other services. No persuasion was intended, staff just gave it out. After receipt of all questionnaires, the data was recorded using a computer-aided input programme specifically developed for this purpose. The data was subsequently checked for plausibility using the SPSS 15 statistical programme and corrected where necessary.
Finally, SPSS was used again to evaluate the data. The data collection was carried out using an anonymous patient characteristic form which aimed at providing as much confidentiality as possible. The study was voluntary, and all respondents provided their written informed consent. By the end of the quantitative survey 15 August , a total of questionnaires had been received.
Out of the remaining respondents, were interviewed again at T2. This corresponds to a re-attainment rate of Eighty-nine persons took part in the last survey at T3 re-attainment rate in relation to T1: During the period of the survey, it was difficult to meet and to offer the questionnaire to participants in the survey for three times during 4, 5 months.
DCRs cannot be understood as utilised on a daily base by most of the people, but rather unfrequently. So it was not possible to meet people three times in the period. The respective percentages are reported for the stages T1, T2 and T3. This way of presentation allows an estimate of the extent to which drop-outs between the individual stages led to distortions in sampling.
In cases where the three samples differ greatly in terms of relevant characteristics; a comparative interpretation of results obtained at different stages would only be possible to a limited extent. Table 1 indicates that almost half of the respondents in the introductory interview T1 were recruited in Frankfurt's two drug consumption rooms Slightly less than one-third About 1 in 20 survey participants was interviewed in Bielefeld 5. The respondents are predominantly male Whereas T2 shows no change in the male-female ratio compared to T1, the percentage of male clients at T3 is slightly increased The survey participants' average age at T1 is The average age at T2 and T3 is only slightly lower.
The question of how long the participants have been using opiates is of particular interest in this survey. While it can be assumed that long-term opiate use leads to habituated patterns of use that complicate changing the method of administration:.
Table 1 indicates that the survey participants have been using heroin for an average of Almost one-fifth have been using heroin for 1 to 5 years, another One-fifth reported having used heroin for 11 to 15 years and 16 to 20 years, respectively, while The respective percentages do not vary significantly between the individual stages.
Intravenous heroin use is very common among the survey participants. There is data available for of the respondents Table 2 indicates that slightly more than two-thirds of the respondents This method of administration is considerably more common in men When differentiating by age, it is noticeable that intravenous use is more widespread in younger heroin users age 19—29 years , accounting for Those respondents who reported injecting heroin practise this method of administration at an average of 3.
The median, which refers to the mean value when arranging the survey participants' statements by size, is slightly lower, amounting to 3. Very interesting differences can be seen when evaluating the data by gender.
While men reported an average of 3. More intensive intravenous use among female heroin users is also confirmed in view of the median. Among the survey participants, Smoking heroin is more prevalent among men When asked about the frequency of smoking heroin, Another Nearly half of the respondents Almost three-fourths The corresponding percentage among men is eight percentage points lower.
The attractiveness of smoking heroin appears to increase steadily with the users' age. While This relatively high percentage increases further when focusing on the oldest survey participants, This approval is higher among female heroin users One of the survey's primary goals was therefore to reduce intravenous use among the participating heroin users. The bottom row in Table 3 shows that two-thirds of the sample This seems to be the post striking feature as it is a personal decision not to inject but to smoke heroin.
There are, however, significant gender-specific differences, which cannot explained within this survey. The differences in percentage between the individual age groups are less distinct. At the end of the T2 interview, the survey participants were asked to indicate why they smoke heroin with the new foil. Almost six in ten One cerebral consequence of foil smoking is leukoencephalopathy, a spongiform degeneration of the white matter.
This is likely triggered by the pyrolysate generated during the heating process. Multiple drug use and concomitant cigarette smoking in heroin addicts make cause-effect relationships difficult to assess. In general, the history of inhalative heroin consumption should be considered in patients presenting with any unkown pulmonary disease with severe bronchospasms as may happen in a severe asthma exacerbation. Folienrauchen bezeichnet einen inhalativen Konsum von Heroin.
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