Drug Sharing and HIV Transmission Risks: The Practice of Frontloading in the Dutch Injecting Drug User Population
作者:
PaulC.Jean,
KaplanCharlesD.,
AdriaansNicoF.P.,
BlankenPeter,
期刊:
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 23,
issue 1
页码: 1-10
ISSN:0279-1072
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1080/02791072.1991.10472569
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
关键词: drug sharing;frontloading;HIV transmission;injecting drug user;needle sharing
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractInjecting drug users may now be the largest group at risk for contracting HIV, mainly through the sharing of drug injection equipment (including lending, borrowing, and renting). This article presents the results of an ongoing ethnographic study into the drug-taking rituals of heroin addicts. A possible additional route of HIV contamination is presented, namely the ritual sharing of drugs through a practice termed“frontloading,”which is embedded in a broader pattern of the sharing of resources among addicts. It is hypothesized that in the Netherlands this practice may be responsible for a substantial proportion of HIV spread among injecting drug users.
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