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Drug Use and Sexual Activity on a College Campus

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.10.1272

A questionnaire study on one college campus revealed that drug users were significantly more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, to engage in it earlier in life, and to engage in it regularly and with a greater variety of partners. This held true regardless of the specific indicator of drug use employed, as well as when the two control variables, gender and class in college, were introduced.

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