Hispanic heroin users: Up close and personal.

Abstract

(create) Describes the experience of Hispanic heroin abusers. Through direct street observation, open-ended interviews, and group discussions conducted from 1989 through 1990, the author became acquainted with about 150 homeless drug injectors and prostitutes in several social networks in New York city. Most often, they met at a drop-in drug rehabilitation center. The author describes the social networks and environment of life on "the street", a direct observation of a heroin "fix", and perceptions of injection risks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)