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

A Direct Observation of A Heroin FixStory – 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