I love you... and heroin: care and collusion among drug-using couplesJANIE SIMMONS
National Development and Research Institutes Medical and Health Research Association of NYC, NY, NY, USA
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 1:7. 2006
..This study presents a more nuanced portrayal by describing the interpersonal dynamics of 10 heroin and cocaine-using couples from Hartford, Connecticut...
- Knowledge of AIDS and HIV transmission among drug users in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Neilane Bertoni
Institute for Scientific and Technological Information and Communication in Health LIS ICICT, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Harm Reduct J 8:5. 2011
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- Getting the message straight: effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users
Lauretta E Grau
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Harm Reduct J 6:36. 2009
..Issues related to format and language of written materials are discussed...
- Black 'N Mild and carcinogenic: cigar smoking among inner city young adults in Hartford, CT
Merrill Singer
Hispanic Health Council, 175 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
J Ethn Subst Abuse 6:81-94. 2007
..The study highlights the importance of examining regional differences in drug use patterns (Singer et al., 1992)...
- Drugs and development: the global impact of drug use and trafficking on social and economic development
Merrill Singer
Hispanic Health Council, 175 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Int J Drug Policy 19:467-78. 2008
..The paper emphasizes the need for new approaches for diminishing the burden placed by drugs on development...
- High notes: the role of drugs in the making of Jazz
Merrill Singer
Center for Community Health Research, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
J Ethn Subst Abuse 5:1-38. 2006
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- Syndemics, sex and the city: understanding sexually transmitted diseases in social and cultural context
Merrill C Singer
Hispanic Health Center, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Soc Sci Med 63:2010-21. 2006
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- When the drug of choice is a drug of confusion: embalming fluid use in inner city Hartford, CT
Merrill Singer
Center for Community Health Research of the Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
J Ethn Subst Abuse 4:73-96. 2005
..The public health implications of this new wave of PCP use are assessed...
- Dust in the wind: the growing use of embalming fluid among youth in Hartford, CT
Merrill Singer
Hispanic Health Council, 175 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Subst Use Misuse 40:1035-50. 2005
..Given the toxic substances that comprise embalming fluid, and the tendency, affirmed in the present study, of the drug to be associated with violent behavior, there is a need to recognize embalming fluid as a drug of concern among youth...
- The social origins and expressions of illness
Merrill Singer
Center for Community Health Research, Hispanic Health Council, 175 Main St, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
Br Med Bull 69:9-19. 2004
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- Toward a bio-cultural and political economic integration of alcohol, tobacco and drug studies in the coming century
M Singer
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Soc Sci Med 53:199-213. 2001
..Methodologically, the assessment combined methods and concepts from all of the major subfields of anthropology...
- The social geography of AIDS and hepatitis risk: qualitative approaches for assessing local differences in sterile-syringe access among injection drug users
M Singer
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, Conn 06106, USA
Am J Public Health 90:1049-56. 2000
..Preliminary findings from each of these methods are reported to illustrate the methods' value in elucidating the impact of local and regional social factors on sterile syringe access...
- Pharmacy access to syringes among injecting drug users: follow-up findings from Hartford, Connecticut
M Singer
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Public Health Rep 113:81-9. 1998
..This chapter reports findings from a four-year follow-up study of current IDU access to over-the-counter (OTC) pharmacy syringes in Hartford, Connecticut...
- Variation in drug injection frequency among out-of-treatment drug users in a national sample
M Singer
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 24:321-41. 1998
..The public health implications of these findings are presented...
- Under the counter: the diffusion of narcotic analgesics to the inner city street
James Vivian
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
J Ethn Subst Abuse 4:97-114. 2005
..Other characteristics of this emerging drug user group are explored and the need for future research is highlighted...
- "Nobody gives a damn if I live or die": violence, drugs, and street-level prostitution in inner-city Hartford, Connecticut
Nancy Romero-Daza
Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT, USA
Med Anthropol 22:233-59. 2003
..Exposure to traumatic experiences deepens the dependence on drugs, completing a vicious cycle of violence, substance abuse, and AIDS risk...
- Public health interventionists, penny capitalists, or sources of risk?: assessing street syringe sellers in Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas J Stopka
The Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, Connecticut 06106, USA
Subst Use Misuse 38:1345-77. 2003
..A qualitative and ethnographic study was conducted in Hartford between 1999 and 2001 to help elucidate the public health risks and benefits of street syringe sellers...
