Health Services Research Among Hard-To-Reach Populations

HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AMONG HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS

Table of Contents

Volume 35, Number 4

October - December 2003

Editor’s Introduction: Health Services Research Among Hard-to-Reach Populations

— James A. Inciardi, Ph.D. 415

Drug Injectors and Dealers in Odessa, Ukraine

— Robert E. Booth, Ph.D.; Jane Kennedy, D.O.; Tom Brewster, L.C.S.W. & Oleg Semerik 419

HIV Prevention Among High-Risk and Hard-to-Reach Rural Residents

— Carl Leukefeld, D.S.W.; Heather Roberto, M.P.H.; Matthew Hiller, Ph.D.;

Matthew Webster, Ph.D.; TK Logan, Ph.D. & Michele Staton-Tindall, M.S.W. 427

HIV/AIDS Among Probationers: An Assessment of Risk and Results from a Brief Intervention

— Steven S. Martin, M.Sc., M.A.; Daniel J. O’Connell, M.A.; James A. Inciardi, Ph.D.;

Hilary L. Surratt, M.A. & Ronald Beard 435

Prevalence and Risk Factors for HIV Among Sniffers, Short-Term Injectors,

and Long-Term Injectors of Heroin

— Dale D. Chitwood, Ph.D.; Mary Comerford, M.S.P.H. & Jesús Sanchez, Ph.D. 445

A Potential Hidden Source of Hepatitis C Infection Among Noninjecting Drug Users

— James M. McMahon, Ph.D. & Stephanie Tortu, Ph.D. 455

“The Rock Always Comes First”: Drug Users’ Accounts About Using Formal Health Care

— René D. Drumm, Ph.D.; Duane C. McBride, Ph.D.; Lisa Metsch, Ph.D.; J. Bryan Page, Ph.D.

Kimberly Dickerson, M.S.W. & Beverly Jones, M.S.W. 461

Current Physical Health Problems and their Predictors Among a Community Sample

of Crack-Cocaine Smokers in Ohio

— Russel S. Falck, M.A.; Jichuan Wang, Ph.D.; Harvey A. Siegal, Ph.D. & Robert G. Carlson, Ph.D. 471

Health, Social Support and Satisfaction with Health Outcome

— David C. Bell, Ph.D. & Susan Evans, M.A. 479

Modeling Service Access in a Homeless Population

— David E. Pollio, Ph.D.; Carol S. North, M.D., M.P.E.; Karin M. Eyrich, Ph.D., M.P.E.;

Douglas A. Foster, M.S.W. & Edward Spitznagel, Ph.D. 487

Using the Quality of Well-Being Scale to Assess Quality of Life in Out-of-Treatment Drug Users

— Grace L. Reynolds, DPA(c); Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.D.; Jennifer A. Klahn, M.A. &

Michele M. Wood, M.A. 497

Treatment Readiness Among Out-of-Treatment African-American Crack Users

— William A. Zule, Dr.P.H.; Wendy K.K. Lam, Ph.D. & Wendee M. Wechsberg, Ph.D. 503

Rural and Urban Similarities and Differences in Private Substance Abuse Treatment Centers

— Hannah K. Knudsen, Ph.D.; J. Aaron Johnson, Ph.D.; Paul M. Roman, Ph.D. & Carrie B. Oser, M.A. 511

INTERNATIONAL ADDICTIONS INFOLINE

—Richard B. Seymour, M.A; David E. Smith, M.D. & Terry Chambers, B.A. 519

INDEX

—Volume 35 (1-4) 2003 525

COVER ART

—KA99 by Wayne Ossner