Needles in the haystacks: The social context of initiation to heroin injection in rural Ohio

Paul Draus, Robert Carlson

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1111-1124
Number of pages14
JournalSubstance Use and Misuse
Volume41
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2006

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Health(social science)
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

Keywords

  • Contextual factors
  • Ethnography
  • Heroin
  • Initiation
  • Injection
  • Injection drug users (IDUs)
  • Marginality
  • Natural history study
  • Respondent-driven sampling
  • Risk environments
  • Rural drug use
  • Social ecology
  • Social networks
  • Transition
  • IDUs
  • injection drug users

Disciplines

  • Health Services Administration
  • Health Services Research
  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Mental and Social Health
  • Public Health
  • Substance Abuse and Addiction

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