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Comparative rates of violent crime among regular methamphetamine and opioid users: offending and victimization
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AIMS: To determine the comparative levels of violent offending and victimization among regular methamphetamine and heroin users. DESIGN: Cross-sectional Setting Sydney, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 400 regular methamphetamine (METH) and heroin (HER) users (118 methamphetamine users: METH; 161 regular heroin users: HER; 121 regular users of both: BOTH). FINDINGS: Eighty-two per cent reported a life-time history of committing violent crime, 41% in the past 12 months. There were no group differences in life-time violence, but the METH group were significantly more likely than the HER group to have committed violence in the past 12 months (odds ratio 1.94). Nearly all (95%) reported that they had been a victim of violent crime, 46% in the preceding 12 months, with no group differences. Those who had committed a violent crime in the past 12 months were 13.23 times more likely to have been a victim in that period. The majority believed it unlikely that they would be a victim of (78%), or commit (87%), a violent crime in the next 12 months. CONCLUSIONS: Regular methamphetamine use appears to be associated with an increased risk of violent offending, but not victimization, compared with heroin use.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Darke, S., Torok, M., Kaye, S., Ross, J., & McKetin, R.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Darke, Shane
- Venue
- Addiction
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-04-08
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 916-919
- ISSN
- 0965-2140 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0443
- OpenAlex
- W2158780792
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 8.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Addiction (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Youth, Drugs, and Violence
- Keywords
- methamphetamine, heroin, opioid use, violent offending, violent victimization, drug users, co-occurring substance use, crime risk
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Epidemiologic Methods, Female, Heroin Dependence, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Violence, Crime Victims, Amphetamine-Related Disorders, Young Adult
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