Social networks of drug users in high-risk sites: Finding the connections

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-206

  Weeks, Margaret R ^a   Clair, Scott ^b   Borgatti, Stephen P ^c   Radda, Kim ^a   Schensul, Jean J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Drug users; Drug use settings; HIV; Puerto Ricans; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036624818     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015457400897     Document Type: Article

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