HIV, AIDS, and drug abuse in the international sector

Article Abstract:

About 2.1 million adults were estimated by the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to have the HIV virus or the AIDS disease at the end of 1995. The UNAIDS further projects that some 30 to 40 million people worldwide will be living with HIV infection by the year 2000. While heterosexual contact is the leading transmission mode, injection drug use, specifically the sharing of drug paraphernalia, has placed large, highly marginalized populations at risk of HIV infection and AIDS. In light of such greater risk of contracting the disease, many countries have instituted risk reduction initiatives as part of their AIDS prevention programs.

International aspects, HIV infection, HIV infections, AIDS (Disease), Intravenous drug abuse

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The heraldry of heroin: "dope stamps" and the dynamics of drug markets in New York City

Article Abstract:

An analysis is presented on the social, economic, cultural and political relevance of artistic stamps printed on bags of heroin, based on a study of 300 addicts and dealers in New York, New York. The stamps, which represent an artifact indigenous to the heroin culture, denote individual markets, provide ethnographic information and utilize prestige and advertising concepts.

New York, Statistical Data Included, Demographic aspects, Surveys, New York, New York, Heroin habit, Heroin

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