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"Every 'Never' I Ever Said Came True": Transitions from opioid pills to heroin injecting

S. G. MARS ; P. BOURGOIS ; G. KARANDINOS ; F. MONTERO ; D. CICCARONE | 2014
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.25, n°2, March 2014) Article : Périodique

This qualitative study documents the pathways to injecting heroin by users in Philadelphia and San Francisco before and during a pharmaceutical opioid pill epidemic. Data was collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews (conducted betw[...]

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Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States

S. G. MARS ; J. N. FESSEL ; P. BOURGOIS ; F. MONTERO ; G. KARANDINOS ; D. CICCARONE | 2015
Dans Social Science and Medicine (Vol.140, September 2015) Article : Périodique

Heroin overdose, more accurately termed 'heroin-related overdose' due to the frequent involvement of other drugs, is the leading cause of mortality among regular heroin users. (Degenhardt et al., 2010) Heroin injectors are at greater risk of hos[...]

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Heroin uncertainties: Exploring users' perceptions of fentanyl-adulterated and -substituted 'heroin'

D. CICCARONE ; J. ONDOCSIN ; S. G. MARS | 2017
Dans International Journal of Drug Policy (Vol.46, August 2017) Article : Périodique

Background: The US is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic fostered in recent years by regional contamination of the heroin supply with the fentanyl family of synthetic opioids. Since 2011 opioid-related overdose deaths in the [...]

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Illicit fentanyls in the opioid street market: desired or imposed? [Addiction debate]

S. G. MARS ; D. ROSENBLUM ; D. CICCARONE | 2019
Dans Addiction (Vol.114, n°5, Mai 2019) Article : Périodique

Background: Illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogues are appearing in countries throughout the world, often disguised as heroin or counterfeit prescription pills, with resulting high overdose mortality. Possible explanations for this ph[...]

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Sold as heroin: Perceptions and use of an evolving drug in Baltimore, MD

S. G. MARS ; J. ONDOCSIN ; D. CICCARONE | 2018
Dans Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Vol.50, n°2, April-June 2018) Article : Périodique

Since 2001, heroin-related overdose deaths in the United States have risen six-fold, a rise unaccounted for by the expanding user population. Has heroin become a more dangerous drug? Reports of fentanyl and its analogs, often concealed in or sol[...]

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The textures of heroin: User perspectives on "black tar" and powder heroin in two US cities

S. G. MARS ; P. BOURGOIS ; G. KARANDINOS ; F. MONTERO ; D. CICCARONE | 2016
Dans Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Vol.48, n°4, September-October 2016) Article : Périodique

Since the 1990s, U.S. heroin consumers have been divided from the full range of available products: east of the Mississippi River, Colombian-sourced powder heroin (PH) dominates the market while, to the west, Mexican-sourced "black tar" (BTH) is[...]

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