Social misery and the sanctions of substance abuse: Confronting HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco

Social Problems

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 155-173

  Bourgois, Philippe ^a   Lettiere, Mark ^a   Quesada, James ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/3096940     Document Type: Article

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