A Qualitative Study of Women in Drug Markets

药品市场中女性的定性研究

• 批准号: 7032998
• 负责人: Sheigla Brighid Murphy
• 金额: $ 48.62万
• 依托单位: SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-01 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7032998
• 关键词: Cannabis; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; central nervous system stimulants; clinical research; ethnic group; female; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; interview; legal /correctional; longitudinal human study; motivation; perception; social behavior; socioeconomics; substance abuse related behavior

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Previous studies of illicit drug markets have focused predominately on male sellers or have made nominal gendered analyses of their drug-selling samples. The sparse ethnographic work that exists on women's roles in the drug economy has been based primarily in New York City's low income neighborhood or outside of the United States. The overall aim of this proposed 36-month project is to conduct a qualitative study of women drug sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employing ethnographic sampling techniques, we will recruit 160 participants (40 from each drug group: marijuana, club drugs, heroin, and stimulants) who have sold or exchanged drugs five or more times in the prior six months. A sub-sample of these women will be selected for intensive monthly ethnographic interviews/observations for one year. We intend to interview women involved in drug distribution who are 18 years of age or older and who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. By extending the study to relatively low level sellers of a number of different drugs, we hope to interview a full range of distributors, from user/sellers to sellers who do not use, from initiates to long term dealers, from sellers who sell one drug only to those who sell other drugs as well, from small scale go-betweens to wholesalers, and from sellers and buyers who are strangers to those who are friends or relatives. Study findings will provide much needed empirical information on women sellers' unique experiences in order to design more effective and appropriate public health initiatives and interventions that are designed to target gender-sensitive and gender-specific risk factors. This project will provide information regarding the impact of gender on distribution practices and personal use patterns and, in turn, the health-related dangers for women who sell drugs. Study results will be published in forms appropriate to three audiences clinicians -- people who work in drug treatment and prevention programs, and social scientists.

描述（由申请人提供）：以前对非法药物市场的研究主要集中在男性卖家上，或者对其药物销售样本进行了名义性别分析。关于妇女在毒品经济中角色的稀疏民族志工作主要基于纽约市的低收入社区或美国以外的地方。这个拟议的36个月项目的总体目的是对旧金山湾区的女性销售商进行定性研究。使用民族志抽样技术，我们将招募160名参与者（每个药物组40名：大麻，俱乐部药物，海洛因和兴奋剂），他们在前六个月中出售或交换了五次或更多次药物。这些妇女的子样本将被选为一年的密集的每月民族志访谈/观察。我们打算采访参与18岁以上且居住在旧金山湾区的毒品分配的妇女。通过将研究扩展到许多不同药物的相对较低的销售商，我们希望采访各种分销商，从用户/卖家到不使用的卖家，从启动到长期经销商，从卖方，卖家，只有一种卖方到卖出其他毒品的卖家，从卖其他毒品的人，以及来自小规模的待办事项，从卖方居民到惠待者，从卖家和卖家卖家和买家，以及这些人与这些人或陌生人的人或陌生人。研究结果将提供有关女性卖家独特经验的急需经验信息，以设计旨在针对针对性别敏感和性别特定性别风险因素的更有效和适当的公共卫生计划和干预措施。该项目将提供有关性别对分销惯例和个人使用模式的影响的信息，进而为销售毒品的妇女带来的健康危险。研究结果将以适合三位受众临床医生的形式出版 - 在药物治疗和预防计划和社会科学家中工作的人。