Retrospective recall of heroin initiation and the impact on peer networks
Retrospective recall of heroin initiation and the impact on peer networks
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DOI：
10.1080/16066350701340651
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Strang, John
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作者：
Best, David;Manning, Victoria;Strang, John
开始使用海洛因是一个事件，显然是值得纪念的个人-甚至许多年后。目前的探索性研究评估了一组长期物质使用者中的海洛因初始化，以评估海洛因使用对同伴网络的影响。参与者能够相当详细地回忆他们开始的时刻，并能够回忆和描述他们当时参与的同伴网络。开始使用海洛因对这些网络产生了深远的影响，使开始并继续使用海洛因的群体与没有开始并继续使用海洛因的群体分裂开来。然而，即使是在继续使用的人中，也出现了一种更为渐进的破裂，家庭和最亲密的友谊之外的社会纽带开始松动。海洛因初始化是一个关键的事件，很少受到研究的关注，但其对社会功能的影响在这里报告为戏剧性的和有影响力的塑造用户的自我认知和身份。
Initiation to heroin use is an event that is evidently memorable for the individual - even many years later. The current exploratory study assesses heroin initiation among a cohort of long-term substance users to assess the effects of heroin use on peer networks. Participants were able to recollect the occasion of their initiation in considerable detail and were able to recall and describe the peer networks in which they were involved at the time. Initiation into heroin use had had a profound effect on these networks, fragmenting groups between those who initiated and continued to use and those who did not. However, even among the continued users, there was a more gradual rupture, with loosening of social bonds outside family and the closest friendship dyads. Heroin initiation is a critical event that has received little research attention, yet its impact on social functioning is reported here as dramatic and influential in shaping the users' self-perceptions and identity.