Street-level drug markets: Network structure and HIV risk

Richard Curtis; Samuel R. Friedman; Alan Neaigus; Benny Jose; Marjorie Goldstein; Gilbert Ildefonso

doi:10.1016/0378-8733(95)00264-O

Street-level drug markets: Network structure and HIV risk

Richard Curtis, Samuel R. Friedman, Alan Neaigus, Benny Jose, Marjorie Goldstein, Gilbert Ildefonso

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Ethnographic and formal social network methods are used to define and situate three categories of injecting drug users - a core, an inner periphery and an outer periphery - in a street-level drug market scene. Different locations in these network structures are shown to be associated with different levels of AIDS risk behaviors and of HIV infection rates. A network perspective helps to understand HIV risks and to devise appropriate interventions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	229-249
Number of pages	21
Journal	Social Networks
Volume	17
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-8733(95)00264-O
State	Published - 1995
Externally published	Yes

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