Needle sharing in The Netherlands: an ethnographic analysis. | Zendy

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Needle sharing in The Netherlands: an ethnographic analysis.

Author(s) -

Jean-Paul Grund,

C Kaplan,

NICO F. P. ADRIAANS

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.81.12.1602

Subject(s) - paraphernalia , needle sharing , heroin , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , participant observation , drug user , drug , syringe , ethnography , psychiatry , family medicine , sociology , law , condom , syphilis , anthropology , political science

Needle sharing has been reported to be the main cause of the rapid spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among injecting drug users. Risk behaviors such as needle sharing are, however, the end result of complicated interaction patterns in drug user networks, which have their specific rules and rituals, and larger social structures and official drug policy.

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