Background Substance use-related stigma is a significant barrier to care among persons
who use drugs (PWUD). Less is known regarding how intersectional identities, like gender …

Purpose The 'chivalry hypothesis' posits that woman are treated more compassionately by
the media when compared with men. To our knowledge, no research study has explored the …

Drugs and crime research and theory in the United States originated after President Nixon
declared the first War on Drugs in 1971. This research agenda promised to reveal the scope …

This volume provides an essential roster of primary research methods as they apply to
health communication inquiry. Editor Bryan B. Whaley brings together key health …

This article presents a cultural analysis of HBO's drama series, The Wire. It is argued here
that, as a cultural text, The Wire forms a site of both containment and resistance, of …

Methamphetamine (or “meth”), a central nervous system stimulant, has been constructed as
a dangerous drug with certain and extreme consequences. Incomplete and sometimes …

Background People who inject drugs are subjected to great stigmatization in many parts of
the world. How they deal with stigma is closely linked to how stigma means to them …

Sociology has contributed much to the study of drug use and dependence, as numerous
reviews can attest (eg Adrian, 2003; Allen, 2007; Bergeron, 2009; Faupel, Horowitz, & …

Background Drug users' risk sexual practices contribute to their increased risk for contracting
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Use of methamphetamine has been …

Background A substantial amount of evidence suggests that dysfunction of the dopamine
transporter may be involved in the pathophysiology of amphetamine dependence (AD). The …