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Qualitative research methods were used to contact, observe and interview about 40 heroin users living in a Kenyan coastal town with a lively tourist industry. It was found that injecting practices were similar to those reported in ot[...]
Auteur S. BECKERLEG
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Women's drug use is often associated with sex work as a means of raising money for consumption. Similarly, in Kenya and Uganda, journalists, the general public and aid agencies associate female consumption of the stimulant drug, khat (Catha edul[...]
Although khat (Catha edulis) is not widely known outside its countries of production in East Africa and Yemen, it evokes strong views among consumers, development workers, and government officials who often behave as self-styled experts on the d[...]
FRANÇAIS : Dans cet article les comportements liés à l'usage de l'héroïne dans les villes cotières d'Afrique de l'Est sont exposés. L'approche d'une communauté dont le programme est la réhabilitation des héroïnomanes kenyans est décrit. Le prog[...]
S. BECKERLEG ; M. TELFER ; SADIQ A. | 2006
Dans Substance Use and Misuse (Vol.41 n°6-7, 2006) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : This article reports on a rapid assessment (RA) carried out in the city port of Mombasa, Kenya in March 2004 by the Omari Project to inform the scaling up of their services to heroin users. Heroin has been a street drug in Mombasa fo[...]
Khat. A harmless natural stimulant or a lethal epidemic sweeping through the international drugs trade? Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee is in the West. It is hugely popular in some African and Ara[...]
