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Taking Care of Business—The Heroin User's Life on the Street
Edward Preble,John J. Casey +1 more
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Taking Care of Business: The Heroin User's Life on the Street as mentioned in this paper is a book about taking care of business in a business environment, with a focus on the business aspect.Abstract:
(1969). Taking Care of Business—The Heroin User's Life on the Street. International Journal of the Addictions: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-24.read more
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Targeted sampling: options for the study of hidden populations
TL;DR: Targeted sampling provides a cohesive set of research methods that can help researchers study health or social problems that exist among populations that are difficult to reach because of their attributed social stigma, legal status, and consequent lack of visibility.
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The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework:
TL;DR: A conceptual framework is presented for examining the drugs/violence nexus and drugs and violence are seen as being related in three possible ways: the psychopharmacological, the economically compulsive, and the systemic.
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Disciplining addictions: the bio-politics of methadone and heroin in the United States.
TL;DR: An ethnographic perspective on the ways street-based heroin addicts experience methadone reveals the quagmire of powerrelations that shape drug treatment in the United States.
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Harnessing peer networks as an instrument for AIDS prevention: results from a peer-driven intervention.
Robert S. Broadhead,Douglas D. Heckathorn,David L. Weakliem,Denise L. Anthony,H Madray,R J Mills,James J. Hughes +6 more
TL;DR: A comparison of a traditional outreach intervention and an innovative social network model, termed "a peer-driven intervention" (PDI), suggests that given guidance and nominal incentives, IDUs can play a more extensive role in community outreach efforts than the traditional model allows.
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Using the Internet for Survey Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the use of the Internet as an interface between researcher and the research community to reach individuals as research subjects, where the target group, illicit drug dealers, are difficult to access under normal conditions and contacting a spread of such individuals across international borders was previously prohibitive.
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
TL;DR: The Argonauts of the Western Pacific as discussed by the authors is a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology that argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.