But the longer
a participant on cocaine had to wait to use a condom, the more willing they were to have sex without one.
Not exact matches
The researchers acknowledge that their study was dependent
on hypothetical sexual situations, not real - life circumstances, and that
participants swallowed the
cocaine in pill form instead of snorting or smoking it, as is more typical with street use.
When dosed with
cocaine at either dose,
participants were more likely to not use a condom when they had a higher chance of contracting an STI, compared to
participants who weren't
on cocaine.
For example,
participants on the highest dose of
cocaine were
on average 40 percent likely to wait an hour to use a condom, but the same
participants were 60 percent likely to wait that long when given the zero - dose pill.
Even when the investigators removed the scans of 16
participants who were dependent
on alcohol as well as
cocaine, the link between
cocaine use and brain volume loss remained.
Participants were drawn from the Maternal Lifestyle Study (MLS), an investigation of the effects of prenatal
cocaine or opiate exposure
on child outcome in a longitudinal follow - up from 1 month to 11 years in 1,388 children divided into an exposed group and a comparison group (Lester, 1998).