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Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up Close and Personal

Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up Close and Personal. Urban street drug scene – the extensive reliance of people on each other The Not-So Sunny Side of the Street Shouting galleries, crack houses, brothels and the like, are considered extensions of the street Prostitution Homelessness

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Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up Close and Personal

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  1. Chapter 11 – Hispanic Heroin Abusers: Up Close and Personal

  2. Urban street drug scene – the extensive reliance of people on each other The Not-So Sunny Side of the Street • Shouting galleries, crack houses, brothels and the like, are considered extensions of the street • Prostitution • Homelessness A Direct Observation of A Heroin Fix Story – pages 212-219 Perceptions of Injection Risks • Risk – reduction techniques not used • Needle use • Unprotected sex • Need for safer injection practices • It is difficult to avoid HIV exposure behavior associated with life on inner-city streets • This author of this chapter (his research) showed there was a high interest in having correct information about HIV, Etc

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