Aims. To compare potential risk factors for the transition to injecting among non‐injecting
heroin users (NIUs) with different injecting histories. Design. Cross‐sectional data from …

Background and aim Understanding the experience of initiating injection drug use and its
social contexts is crucial to inform efforts to prevent transitions into this mode of drug …

" Timely, disturbing, and luminously written, The Pastoral Clinic is anthropology at its best,
bringing into view a devastating piece of reality, highlighting larger processes and human …

Abstract In North America, street youths are generally considered at very high risk of
injection drug use. To estimate the incidence rate of injection drug use in this population and …

Objectives: To determine the incidence/predictors of transitions to injecting among
noninjecting heroin users (NIUs). Methods: Street-recruited NIUs in New York City …

This paper focuses on the evidence for the effectiveness of community-based outreach
intervention as one component of a comprehensive HIV prevention model for preventing HIV …

Background Prescription drug misuse among young adults is increasingly viewed as a
public health concern, yet most research has focused on student populations and excluded …

Do drug dealers entice nonusers with free samples? Police, the popular press, and social
media users say so, but crime researchers have found little support for this theory and argue …

This article discusses various ways in which ethnographic methods were employed in a
cohort study of HIV risk and transitions to injecting among non-injecting heroin users (NIUs) …

This paper documents the bifurcation of the market for commercial marijuana from the
market for designer marijuana in New York City. Commercial marijuana is usually grown …