Gender Differences in Street Economy and Social Network Correlates of Arrest among Heroin Injectors in Baltimore, Maryland

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 482-493

  Curry, Aaron D ^a   Latkin, Carl A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest; Drug economy; Gender; Injection drug use; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MARKETING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; CRIME; DRUG CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; BALTIMORE; CRIME; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0142244520     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/jtg049     Document Type: Article

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