Changing cocaine use practices: Neo-liberalism, HIV-AIDS, and death in an Argentine Shantytown

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1189-1216

  Epele, María E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Changing consumption practices; Cocaine injection; Cocaine sniffing; Ethnography; Moral codes; Survival strategies

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARGENTINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; MORALITY; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SNIFFING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; VIOLENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ARGENTINA; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; POLITICS; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0042266894     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JA-120018478     Document Type: Review

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