International Journal of Forensic Psychology
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Adolescents involved in criminal activity have been found to have markedly higher rates of HIV risk-taking than their peers who are not incarcerated. This sample of 300 adolescents in detention in New South Wales in 1999 revealed high levels of substance use and HIV risk-taking behaviours compared with their school attending peers. More than a third of the sample had injected a drug and 29% used opioids at least weekly. The rates of sharing injecting equipment were twice that of injecting drug users in the Australian community. The participants were susceptible to initiation to injecting drug use and rapidly re-injected following initiation. The participants demonstrated a lack of knowledge about hepatitis B and C that had not improved over the four years between surveys. These findings indicate an urgent need to implement effective, skills-based interventions to reduce HIV and other blood-borne disease risk-taking behaviours among this high-risk group of adolescents.
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