Table 2 Socioeconomic and political risk environment experienced by PWID drugs by city. Mexico, 2012
Socio-economic and political risk environment variables | Sample distribution by city | All (N = 1494) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tijuana (n = 670) | Cd. Juarez (n = 432) | Hermosillo (n = 392) | ||
Socioeconomic risk environment variables | ||||
Dynamics of illegal drug use during the last 12 months | ||||
Drugs used (%)** | ||||
Heroin | 63.4 | 97.9 | 77.6 | 77.2 |
Cocaine | 14.0 | 37.7 | 42.1 | 28.2 |
Heroin and cocaine together | 14.6 | 28.7 | 17.6 | 19.5 |
Crystal meth | 53.0 | 7.2 | 53.3 | 39.8 |
Crystal meth and heroin together | 56.3 | 2.3 | 16.1 | 30.1 |
Other drugs | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
Type of user according with the number of drugs used (%)*** | ||||
Had used only one type of drug | 30.9 | 49.4 | 37.1 | 38.2 |
Had used more than one type of drug (polysubstance user) (%)*** | 69.1 | 50.6 | 62.9 | 61.8 |
Frequency of drug injection (%)** | ||||
Less than once a day | 3.6 | 8.8 | 31.1 | 12.3 |
Once a day or more | 96.4 | 91.2 | 68.9 | 87.7 |
Political/policy risk environment variables | ||||
Police harassment (%)*** | ||||
Police have confiscated needles at least once during the last 6 months | 9.3 | 40.4 | 39.7 | 26.2 |
Perception of syringe availability (%)*** | ||||
Very easy | 35.9 | 13.2 | 9.7 | 22.5 |
Easy | 44.7 | 52.5 | 73.7 | 54.6 |
Hard | 18.2 | 29.9 | 14.3 | 20.6 |
Very Hard | 1.2 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 |