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Heroin Addictions: Gardaí say heroin usage in Cork has stabilised
Meanwhile there have been calls for Ennis Town Council to liaise with the Health Service Executive to establish a methadone clinic in Ennis. The move comes in response to a reported quadrupling of people requiring treatment for heroin addiction in the …
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Heroin Addictions: Heroin addict Wayne Kirkbride jailed for series of bag snatches in Southampton
Benedict Kellaher, defending, said Kirkbride had been given a community sentence incorporating drug rehabilitation two and a half years ago. “The root cause of his offending is his heroin addiction.” Kirkbride, of Hoe Street, Waterlooville, …
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Heroin Addictions: Heroin addict jailed for 42 months for Perth break-in
A PERTH man freed early from a three-year jail term for a drugs offence could not conquer his heroin habit. And in a bid to get cash to feed his one gramme a day addiction David Hay broke into a unit in Perth's North Muirton Industrial Estate. …
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Heroin Addictions: AN AFGHAN ADDICTION…

a clip about the extent of opium and heroin addictions in a remote part of Afghanistan.
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Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Changing Society (Routledge Advances in Criminology)

Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly in the country. While heroin use in China is soaring, little is known about women’s heroin use in the context of China’s rapidly changing society. Using intensive interviews with 131 female h

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The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction (Suny Series, the New Inequalities)

This book provides a new answer to the question, “Why do people use heroin and other street drugs?” Drawing upon a growing body of studies of drug users conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it attempts to integrate their findings into a theoretically unified sociocultural explanation of heroin use. The theory, which draws heavily upon the insights of symbolic interactionist and role theory, posits that there is a street subculture of heroin users. The chief role in this subculture — t

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