Governing street-based injecting drug users: a critique of heroin overdose prevention in Australia

Moore, David

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.01.029

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“…Drug transactions are socially significant, ritualized situations, playing a crucial role in holding the drug scene together. This paper joins several studies in recommending a continued and improved emphasis on contexts for drug use, both as risk environments and enabling environments (Duff, 2007;Hunt et al, 2009;Moore, 2004a;Parkin, 2013;Rhodes et al, 2005). In the original sense, the term "enabling environment" refers to matters of harm reduction (Rhodes, 2002).…”

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“…To be clear, social relations in the Oslo scene were marked by the same self-centeredness and deceit depicted by other investigators (Bourgois & Schonberg, 2009;Fast et al, 2013;Moore, 2004a;Svensson, 2000).…”

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“…The emphasis on successful interaction rituals and group solidarity in this paper may thus seem peculiar. However, a great deal is known about exploitation and social suffering in street-based drug scenes understood as "risk environments" (Moore, 2004a;Parkin & Coomber, 2009;Parkin, 2013;Rhodes, 2002). Despite social suffering and at times, equivocal identifications between fellow drug users, manifestations of group solidarity were both visible in social situations and audible in the participants' stories.…”

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“…In the original sense, the term "enabling environment" refers to matters of harm reduction (Rhodes, 2002). The context described here may enhance drug-related harm by securing a steady access to drugs and shaping particular, drug ingesting practices (Moore, 2004a). On the other hand, studies of urban drug use contexts illustrate how local "cultures of care" can reduce harm through interaction: "when friends discuss safer injection practices on a street corner" (Duff, 2009, p. 208).…”

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“…While the fear of lacking drugs may serve as social glue, it may also act as a social dissolvent. Parkin (2013, p. 123) describes how drug injectors avoided other members in the drug scene in order to keep from losing drugs and/or money "by either volitional, reciprocal, forced or predatory means", illustrating that drug scenes can be fertile grounds for violence, antagonism, exploitation, mistrust, anxiety, and solitude (see also Agar, 1973;Briggs, 2012;Moore, 2004a;Rhodes et al, 2007).…”

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Group solidarity in a hostile milieu: Immigrant experiences in a street-based drug scene

Sandøy¹

2014

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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Based Drug SceneAims: Street-based drug scenes are typically portrayed as lacking in solidarity. Studies frequently cast camaraderie as solely instrumental, highly conditional, and temporary. The aim of this paper is to explore social dynamics and group solidarity in a seemingly hostile drug scene, and demonstrate the importance of this milieu for a group of immigrant men.Methods: Data was drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in the street-based drug scene in the downtown parts of Oslo, Norway. The fieldwork included participant observation, informal conversations, and 17 interviews with street-based drug users.Findings: Drug transactions, viewed as interaction rituals, may help create group solidarity among the members of the scene. Group solidarity is displayed in social bonds that drew former members back to the scene and in the inclusion of isolated, immigrant men. Conclusions:The street-based drug scene in Oslo, with its repeated interaction rituals and bonds of group membership, provides a community for people who experience low degrees of solidarity elsewhere, as demonstrated in the case of immigrants. This paper encourages a continued and improved emphasis on contexts for drug use as socially enabling environments.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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2014

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Key Moments in the Ethnography of Drug‐Related Harm: Reality Checks for Policy‐Makers?

Moore

2005

Preventing Harmful Substance Use

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The Eye of the Needle: an Ethno‐Epidemiological Analysis of Injecting Drug Use

Grund¹

2005

Injecting Illicit Drugs

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* The term "powder drug"-American drug slang-refers to drugs that can potentially be injected, in particular heroin and other opioids, the amphetamines and cocaine. * For a comparison of health consequences of injecting and chasing, see e.g. Grund, 1993, Ch. 10. * What's more, the increased knowledge that all the attention for HIV among IDUs has brought about has not helped us from preventing the same from happening all over again across the globe. As Crofts (chapter 8) documents, the HIV epidemic among drug injectors has long overshadowed the even more rapid spread of another blood-borne pathogen, the hepatitis C virus (also see IJDP, 2004). * Heroin smokers in the Netherlands and crack smokers in New York consider the drug deposit recovered from their smoking implements as a precious delicacy as well (Grund 1993a). * It is interesting to observe that home production of methamphetamine ("Crank" or "bathtub speed"), using pseudo-ephedrine-based medications in a similar process evolved in the Mid-West of the US in the 1990s. Over the last 10 years production and distribution professionalized and methamphetamine use spread all over the US.

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Governing street-based injecting drug users: a critique of heroin overdose prevention in Australia

Cited by 158 publications

References 31 publications

Group solidarity in a hostile milieu: Immigrant experiences in a street-based drug scene

Group solidarity in a hostile milieu: Immigrant experiences in a street-based drug scene

Key Moments in the Ethnography of Drug‐Related Harm: Reality Checks for Policy‐Makers?

The Eye of the Needle: an Ethno‐Epidemiological Analysis of Injecting Drug Use

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