Needles in the haystacks: The social context of initiation to heroin injection in rural Ohio

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1111-1124

  Draus, Paul ^a,b,c   Carlson, Robert ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d Treatment and Addictions Research   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Ethnography; Heroin; Initiation; Injection; Injection drug users (IDUs); Marginality; Natural history study; Respondent driven sampling; Risk environments; Rural drug use; Social ecology; Social networks; Transition

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OHIO; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STREET DRUGS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 33745515010     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080500411577     Document Type: Article

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