Historique
Périodique
Open marginality: heroin epidemics in different groups
(Marginalité ouverte : épidémies d'héroïne dans divers groupes d'individus)
Auteur(s) :
AGAR, M. ;
SCHACHT REISINGER, H.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
729-746
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
HEROINE
;
POPULATION A RISQUE
;
MARGINAL
;
ANTHROPOLOGIE
;
DIFFUSION DES PRODUITS
;
CONCEPT
;
HISTOIRE
;
ETIOLOGIE
;
FACTEUR DE VULNERABILITE
;
THEORIE
Note générale :
Journal of Drug Issues, 2001, 31(3), 729-746
Résumé :
As part of a project to explain heroin use trends, a concept of "open marginality" is created to highlight how different groups impacted by heroin epidemics have a common historical experience. A reading of the history of epidemics in the U.S., together with the authors' work on two epidemics in the Baltimore region, demonstrate the diversity of groups who have been "at risk" over the years. The concept is integrated with related work in the drug field, especially the ideas of Winick, Singer, and Grund. An analysis of cases shows that such groups experience a rapid and unexpected change, such that a gap between expectations and reality opens up, a gap that is taken up in national public discourse. (Author's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Friends Social Research Center, Baltimore, USA
Cote :
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