Urban segregation and the US heroin market: A quantitative model of anthropological hypotheses from an inner-city drug market

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 543-555

  Rosenblum, Daniel ^a   Castrillo, Fernando Montero ^b   Bourgois, Philippe ^c   Mars, Sarah ^d   Karandinos, George ^e   Unick, George Jay ^f   Ciccarone, Daniel ^d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug economics; Ethno epidemiology; Ethnography; Heroin price; Heroin purity; Mixed methods; Philadelphia; Puerto Rican; Quantitative research; Segregation

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; COST; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG TRAFFIC; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; NEIGHBORHOOD; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICAN; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RACISM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY; UNITED STATES; URBAN SEGREGATION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COLOMBIA; COMMERCE; HEROIN; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PHILADELPHIA; POVERTY; RACE RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84902840684     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: 18734758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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