Social networks impact odds of stopping injection drug use, study finds
People with a history of injection drug use were found to have better odds of stopping injection when their social networks included more people who don’t inject, according to new research from Abby Rudolph, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics.
The findings, published in the journal Addiction, are part of ongoing research that Rudolph and colleagues have been conducting to examine the social context of opioid use in rural Eastern Kentucky, a region hit hard by the opioid crisis and Hepatitis C.
In her work, Rudolph uses social network analyses to unders...
