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The Impact of a Brief Motivational Intervention on Unprotected Sex and Sex While
High Among Drug-Positive Emergency Department Patients Who Receive STI/HIV VC/T
and Drug Treatment Referral as Standard of Care
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MedWorm on 19 January, 2012 09:47:07
 
Abstract  This randomized, controlled trial, conducted among out-of-treatment
heroin/cocaine users at an emergency department visit,  tests the impact on
sexual risk of adding brief motivational intervention (B-MI) to point-of-service
testing, counseling and  drug treatment referral. 1,030 enrollees aged
18–54 received either voluntary counseling/testing (VC/T) with drug
treatment  referral, or VC/T, referral, and B-MI, delivered by an outreach
worker. We measured number and proportion of non-protected  sex acts (last 30
days) at 6 and 12 months (n = 802). At baseline, 70% of past-30-days sex acts
were non-protected; 35% of sex acts occurred while high; 64% of sexual  acts
involved main, 24% casual and 12% transactional sex partners; 1.7% tested
positive for...