chapter 11 – hispanic heroin abusers: up close and personal
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Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up Close and Personal. Urban street drug scene – the extensive reliance of people on each other The Not-So Sunny Side of the Street Shouting galleries, crack houses, brothels and the like, are considered extensions of the street Prostitution Homelessness - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up
Close and Personal
• Urban street drug scene – the extensive reliance of people on each other
The Not-So Sunny Side of the Street• Shouting galleries, crack houses, brothels and the like, are
considered extensions of the street• Prostitution• Homelessness
A Direct Observation of A Heroin FixStory – pages 212-219
Perceptions of Injection Risks• Risk – reduction techniques not used
– Needle use– Unprotected sex
• Need for safer injection practices• It is difficult to avoid HIV exposure behavior associated
with life on inner-city streets• This author of this chapter (his research) showed there was
a high interest in having correct information about HIV, Etc