Skip to main content

Table 3 Reasons for using drugs alone reported by participants of the 2018 Harm Reduction Client Survey that reported using drugs alone in the last 7 days

From: Convenience and comfort: reasons reported for using drugs alone among clients of harm reduction sites in British Columbia, Canada

Reason for using drugs alone

Participants using drugs alone (n = 314) n (%)

Convenience and comfort

139 (44.3%)

Don’t want others to know/stigma

44 (14.0%)

Was alone/had no one to use witha

37 (11.7%)

It’s safer to be alone

30 (9.6%)

Do not want to share/cheaper to use alonea

27 (8.6%)

Other reasonsa

19 (6.1%)

Prefer not to say

31 (9.9%)

No response

19 (6.1%)

  1. Participants could identify more than one reason for using alone
  2. aReasons identified through thematic analysis of free-text responses