NEW HEROIN USERS

新的海洛因使用者

• 批准号: 6175568
• 负责人: Sheigla Brighid Murphy
• 金额: $ 44.27万
• 依托单位: SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-15 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6175568
• 关键词: attitude; audiotape; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; criminal behavior; drug abuse; drug administration routes; health care policy; heroin; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; inhalation drug administration; injection /infusion; interview; questionnaires; smoking; social behavior; social perception; social support network; substance abuse epidemiology; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) In 1996, the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) estimated 14 percent of all drug-related emergency department episodes in the United States were heroin involved. In December 1997, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Community Epidemiology Work Group (CEWG) reported heroin was the primary drug of abuse of San Francisco's drug treatment program admissions. In this application, we propose to conduct an ethnographic investigation into the initiation and continuation practices of new heroin users in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employing ethnographic sampling techniques, we will recruit and enroll 120 participants, 18 to 25 years old, who have used heroin five or more times in the previous 30 days. Half of the proposed sample will be women (60) and half men (60), and we will further stratify the sample according to respondents' self-identified primary route of administration: (40) injectors, (40) smokers and (40) intranasal users. During qualitative (tape recorded) life history interviews with each respondent, we will focus on the following research topics: (1) the process of initiation into heroin-using social worlds; (2) the factors which influence progression to continued heroin use; (3) the process of changing (or not changing) routes of administration; (4) the ways in which young heroin users manage their heroin, and other drug use and everyday life activities; (5) participants' heroin purchasing practices types/levels of criminal involvement; (6) younger heroin users' perceptions of and attitudes toward drug-related health risks, as well as their a~al high-risk behaviors; and, (7) the impact of social networks on initiation and continuation of heroin use. The products of this research will include: (A) An exploration of the processes of initiation and continuation among young heroin users in the San Francisco Bay Area. (B) Essential information for service providers and policy makers interested in creating efficacious interventions targeted for this growing group of new heroin users. And, (c) pilot work for a large scale study that can test emergent hypotheses with a control group.

描述：（申请人摘要） 1996 年，药物滥用警告网络 (DAWN) 估计 14% 的人 美国急诊科发生的毒品相关事件是海洛因 涉及。 1997 年 12 月，国家药物滥用研究所分部 社区流行病学工作组 (CEWG) 流行病学与预防系 据报道海洛因是旧金山毒品滥用的主要药物 治疗计划入院。 在本申请中，我们建议进行 对开始和持续实践的民族志调查 旧金山湾区新的海洛因使用者。 采用民族志 抽样技术，我们将招募和登记 120 名参与者，18 至 25 岁，在过去 30 天内吸食海洛因 5 次或以上。 拟议样本的一半为女性（60 岁），一半为男性（60 岁），我们 会根据受访者的自我认定进一步对样本进行分层 主要给药途径：(40)注射者、(40)吸烟者和(40) 鼻内使用者。 在对每个人进行定性（录音）生活史访谈期间 受访者中，我们将重点研究以下主题：（1）过程 开始进入使用海洛因的社交世界； (2)影响因素 影响继续使用海洛因的进展； (3)变化过程 （或不改变）给药途径； （四）青年人的方式 海洛因使用者管理他们的海洛因和其他药物的使用和日常生活 活动; (5) 参与者的海洛因购买行为类型/水平 参与犯罪； (6) 年轻海洛因吸食者的认知和态度 与毒品相关的健康风险及其所有高危行为； (7) 社交网络对社交活动的启动和持续的影响 使用海洛因。 本研究的成果将包括： (A) 探索 青年海洛因吸毒者开始和继续吸食海洛因的过程 旧金山湾区。 (B) 服务提供商的基本信息 和有兴趣制定有效干预措施的政策制定者 对于这个不断增长的新海洛因使用者群体。 并且，(c) 大规模试点工作 可以用对照组来检验新出现的假设的规模研究。