Ediomo‐ubong E Nelson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 307345 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ediomo‐ubong E Nelson |
| NOMBRES | Ediomo‐ubong E |
| APELLIDO | Nelson |
| FIRMA | NELSON E U E |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2555-1824 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Trustwork
BACKGROUND: While trust has been shown to be important in immersive drug market research, especially when working with hard-to-reach research participants, little in-depth discussion exists on the trust building process and the dynamics that facilitate or hinder this process. In this article, we advance a conceptual framework for understanding the trust building process in fieldwork in illicit drug markets. METHODS: To develop this framework and …
Reimagining the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets
Informal pharmaceutical markets have become an issue of major concern for international agencies and national governments, including in Nigeria, due to reports about 'fake drugs'. These concerns have at times fostered severe regulatory responses, including violent crackdowns on informal markets. This study reimagines the regulation of informal pharmaceutical markets in ways that could promote drug quality and equitable access to drugs, drawing on…
Initiation and continuation of extra-medical pharmaceutical opioids consumption among Nigerian youths
Drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street-level dealers in Nigeria
Background Researchers have investigated drug market risks and navigational strategies of drug dealers in western societies. Less is known about this phenomenon in Africa. This study explores drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street drug dealers in Nigeria.Methods The study uses qualitative data from in-depth interviews with street-level dealers (n = 31) recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria. Thematic analy…
Drug policy stasis and hegemonic narratives of cannabis in Nigeria
The article highlights how hegemonic cannabis policy narratives, especially espoused by policy officials, contribute to maintaining cannabis policy stasis
The social-structural contexts of cannabis consumption and harm reduction among young Nigerian women
Enabling places and the mediation of medication-taking experiences
Contesting Cannabis Legalization in Nigeria
This article examines narratives of cannabis legalization in Nigeria. While most existing research on cannabis legalization has concentrated on the global North, we focus on one of Africa's largest cannabis markets, as well as the views of actors heavily criminalized and excluded from policy debates. Based on in-depth interviews and long-time engagement with illicit cannabis farmers and traders, the article highlights the contestations in their h…
Structural violence and everyday survival during Covid-19 lockdown
Tramadol consumption as edgework
Drugs and Development
The production, distribution, and consumption of drugs has long been seen as a threat to social and economic development. On the other hand, conditions of unemployment and poverty foster expansion of illegal drug markets. In this study, I offer a nuanced view of the drugs/development connection where poverty and unemployment incentivise participation in the illegal drug market as a response to the failure of state-led development. The study is ba…
Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy
26) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public hospitals in Uyo, Nigeria, drew on the idea of stigma as process of social reproduction and the concept of borderwork. Accounts framed stigma as a normalised feature of healthcare that emerged under different circumstances and operated to position chronic non-cancer pain patients who were PWUD as illegitimate subjects underserving of care. Stigma was widely seen as something to be expe…
Addiction stigma and opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain management in Nigeria
This study uses 26 in-depth interviews conducted with people who use drugs (PWUD) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public health facilities in Nigeria, to explore how drug consumption stigma constitutes patient legitimacy based on neoliberal ideals. It found drug consumption stigma to be salient and pervasive in PWUD health-care encounters, operating through interpersonal interactions and institutionalised policies and practices…
Healthcare interactions and barriers to chronic pain management
The literature on chronic pain management for people who use drugs (PWUD) is suffused with research from western societies. Comparatively, less is known about the experiences of PWUD in Africa. In this study, we explore healthcare interactions and barriers to pain management for PWUD in Nigeria. We used qualitative data from in-depth, individual interviews with 26 PWUD recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria. Data were analysed themat…
Sexualized alcohol marketing, precarious work and gendered sexual risks
The alcohol industry in Nigeria uses sophisticated marketing strategies to influence drinking, and alcohol marketing regulations do not exist. This study examined the alcohol industry‘s strategy of using young women to promote beer in Benin City, Nigeria, and how sexualized beer marketing, as precarious employment, creates a context of risk for sexual exploitation. We conducted interviews and focus groups with beer promoters and their patrons and…
‘I cannot stop taking weed cos it makes me survive’
Studies on cannabis criminalization that interrogate the experiences of users are mostly of western origin. Relatively little is known about the experiences of cannabis users in Africa. This study explored cannabis use and criminal sanctions based on the experiences of users. It draws on qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with street-involved youth (n = 97) recruited through time-location sampling from 11 purposively selected …
Cannabis use for pain relief in the context of health service barriers
Intersecting social/structural factors and vulnerability to intimate partner violence
An emerging body of research has shown that women who live in highly coercive settings characterised by poverty and housing instability face a heightened risk of intimate partner violence. We seek to contribute to this literature by exploring how multiple, overlapping social and structural factors shape intimate partner violence (IPV) risk among women who use drugs (WWUD). Analysis of 16 in-depth interviews with WWUD in Uyo, Nigeria, framed by in…
Medicinal use of cannabis
We conducted a qualitative study to examine the enablers and barriers influencing the implementation of medical cannabis from the perspectives of practicing doctors and pharmacists within the African context. Interviews were conducted to investigate medical professionals' perceptions and concerns regarding medicinal cannabis. Three major themes were identified: beliefs about consequences, optimism, and environmental resources and context. Dependi…
The socio-economic context of entry and exit from retail drug dealing
The dynamics of envy in the street field
Although emotions are integral to criminal violence, little research has explicitly explored the role of emotions in drug market violence. This study uses the ‘sociology of emotions’ and the concept of ‘street field’ to understand how envy shapes conflicts in a retail drug market. The study draws upon 31 in-depth interviews conducted with male retail drug dealers in Uyo, Nigeria. Envy, a pervasive feature of a highly conflictual street market fie…
The challenge of youth unemployment in Nigeria
Nigeria is home to a significant and growing “youth” population, over a third of it below 24 years of age. The demographic potential for productivity and growth this group represents occurs alongside large-scale unemployment among young people of working age. The “unemployment crisis” has deep historical roots and exists within a wider context of poor governance, insecurity, conflict, and poverty. Policy norms and practices to address youth unemp…
Rationalities of Space and Drug-Related Harms
BACKGROUND: Studies have examined how people who inject drugs (PWID) navigate public spaces for drug consumption, but little is known about consumption of drugs in private apartments. This study explores social, structural and physical environment factors influencing injecting practices and the rationalities shaping how PWID make decisions about where to consume drugs. METHODS: The study is based on qualitative data from 41 in-depth interviews co…
Situating HIV risk in barbershops
This study explores the contextual factors mediating HIV transmission risk in barbershops using qualitative data from in-depth interviews with barbers (n = 16) in Nigeria. Barbers were aware of individual-level risk factors for HIV transmission. Accounts highlighted individualisation of risk responsibility, wherein the decisions and actions of individual barbers were seen as primary determinants of risk, while overlooking the role of factors beyo…
Consumption, not decriminalization
The challenge of youth unemployment in Nigeria
Nigeria is home to a significant and growing “youth” population, over a third of it below 24 years of age. The demographic potential for productivity and growth this group represents occurs alongside large-scale unemployment among young people of working age. The “unemployment crisis” has deep historical roots and exists within a wider context of poor governance, insecurity, conflict, and poverty. Policy norms and practices to address youth unemp…
The business is about knowing who to sell to”
Addiction stigma and opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain management in Nigeria
This study uses 26 in-depth interviews conducted with people who use drugs (PWUD) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public health facilities in Nigeria, to explore how drug consumption stigma constitutes patient legitimacy based on neoliberal ideals. It found drug consumption stigma to be salient and pervasive in PWUD health-care encounters, operating through interpersonal interactions and institutionalised policies and practices…
Structural violence and barriers to pain management during an opioid crisis
Chronic pain management among marginalised populations have been extensively researched in North America, particularly amidst the opioid crisis. But little published research exists on this subject from Africa. This study explored experiences and management of chronic pain among marginalised women in the context of regulation of opioid prescribing using data from 16 qualitative interviews with women who use drugs (WWUD) in Uyo, Nigeria. Chronic p…
Intersectional analysis of cannabis use, stigma and health among marginalized Nigerian women
Cannabis use by women has been under-researched, particularly use by marginalized women in developing societies. This article draws on qualitative research in Uyo, Nigeria, to explore how intersecting stigmas around social identity categories (e.g. gender, sex work) shapes cannabis use and contributes to health harms for marginalized women. Qualitative data were collected via in-depth interviews with street-involved female cannabis users, and tra…
Drug consumption stigma and patient legitimacy
26) who had sought care for chronic non-cancer pain in public hospitals in Uyo, Nigeria, drew on the idea of stigma as process of social reproduction and the concept of borderwork. Accounts framed stigma as a normalised feature of healthcare that emerged under different circumstances and operated to position chronic non-cancer pain patients who were PWUD as illegitimate subjects underserving of care. Stigma was widely seen as something to be expe…
Supply control, demand reduction or harm reduction? Developments and directions for drug policy in Nigeria
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and it is a transit country for the passage of drugs to Western countries. This has among other factors, led to an increasing level of illicit drug use despite a long history of punitive measures of drug control. Nigeria boasts of very punitive laws against both drug use and drug trafficking, which has been endorsed by external bodies such as the US DEA, but there are no harm reduction policies or s…
Police crackdowns, structural violence and impact on the well-being of street cannabis users in a Nigerian city
Multiple Barriers to Utilization of Drug Abuse Treatment by Female Street Sex Workers in Nigeria
This study investigates barriers to utilization of drug abuse treatment by female street sex workers in Nigeria. Twenty-seven (n = 27) street sex workers were recruited through venue-based snow-ball sampling. In-depth, individual interviews were conducted, and transcripts were subjected to thematic, inductive and data-driven analysis. Sex workers use psychoactive drugs to manage the hazards of street sex work, including guilt, stigma, and violenc…
(En)gendering risk
Although intimate partnerships where both partners inject drugs have emerged as the focus of research and interventions, the gender dynamics characterising risk behaviours in injecting partnerships have largely been neglected. This study explored qualitative interview accounts focusing on the ways gender dynamics that reflect power differences between male and female injecting partners influenced risk perception and management. It drew upon a qua…
Structural inequities, HIV vulnerability and women’s agency
Drawing from thematic analysis of qualitative data from 27 in-depth interviews with cisgender women street-based sex workers recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria, this article explores structural inequities, HIV vulnerability and women's agency. Structural and gendered inequities influenced women's decision to enter street-based sex work and created conditions that facilitated substance use and increased vulnerability to violence, …
The lived experience of violence and health-related risks among street sex workers in Uyo, Nigeria
This study examined the lived experience of violence and health-related risks among street sex workers in Uyo, Nigeria. Data were collected through in-depth, individual interviews with 27 female sex workers recruited through venue-based snowball sampling. Thematic coding and analysis were undertaken on interview transcripts. Findings show that sex workers experienced physical, emotional, sexual and economic violence linked to the criminalisation …
The Socio-Spatial Contexts of HIV Risk for People Who Inject Drugs in Public Spaces in Nigeria
This article explores the socio-spatial factors shaping HIV risk for people who inject in public settings in Nigeria. It draws on thematic coding and analysis of qualitative interview accounts of people who inject drugs (PWID) in public spaces ( n = 29) recruited via snowball sampling. Drug injecting took place in diverse spaces (“bunks,” uncompleted buildings, motor parks, and night life environments) that enabled PWID to conceal illicit drug us…
‘I take it to relax… and chill’
Background Current research on drug use emphasizes harms and often neglects its pleasures and benefits. This one-sided view has supported policies that criminalize personal drug use. This study explores nuanced understandings of cannabis use from the perspectives of marginalized users in Nigeria.Methods This study is based on qualitative research conducted with street-involved young adults (n = 97) recruited through time-location sampling in Uyo,…
The business is about knowing who to sell to”
Intersectional analysis of cannabis use, stigma and health among marginalized Nigerian women
Cannabis use by women has been under-researched, particularly use by marginalized women in developing societies. This article draws on qualitative research in Uyo, Nigeria, to explore how intersecting stigmas around social identity categories (e.g. gender, sex work) shapes cannabis use and contributes to health harms for marginalized women. Qualitative data were collected via in-depth interviews with street-involved female cannabis users, and tra…
Rationalities of Space and Drug-Related Harms
BACKGROUND: Studies have examined how people who inject drugs (PWID) navigate public spaces for drug consumption, but little is known about consumption of drugs in private apartments. This study explores social, structural and physical environment factors influencing injecting practices and the rationalities shaping how PWID make decisions about where to consume drugs. METHODS: The study is based on qualitative data from 41 in-depth interviews co…
Situating HIV risk in barbershops
This study explores the contextual factors mediating HIV transmission risk in barbershops using qualitative data from in-depth interviews with barbers (n = 16) in Nigeria. Barbers were aware of individual-level risk factors for HIV transmission. Accounts highlighted individualisation of risk responsibility, wherein the decisions and actions of individual barbers were seen as primary determinants of risk, while overlooking the role of factors beyo…
Consumption, not decriminalization
Nuancing Drug Harms
Recent studies on women’s substance use have emphasized the role of structural and environmental contexts in shaping substance use patterns and harms, but the dynamics constitutive of specific substance use contexts are seldom unpacked. This study works with Cameron Duff’s elaboration of context as an assemblage of space, embodiment and practice to explore the contextual dynamics that mediate substance use practices among socially marginalized wo…
Structural violence and barriers to pain management during an opioid crisis
Chronic pain management among marginalised populations have been extensively researched in North America, particularly amidst the opioid crisis. But little published research exists on this subject from Africa. This study explored experiences and management of chronic pain among marginalised women in the context of regulation of opioid prescribing using data from 16 qualitative interviews with women who use drugs (WWUD) in Uyo, Nigeria. Chronic p…
Healthcare interactions and barriers to chronic pain management
The literature on chronic pain management for people who use drugs (PWUD) is suffused with research from western societies. Comparatively, less is known about the experiences of PWUD in Africa. In this study, we explore healthcare interactions and barriers to pain management for PWUD in Nigeria. We used qualitative data from in-depth, individual interviews with 26 PWUD recruited through snowball sampling in Uyo, Nigeria. Data were analysed themat…
Sexualized alcohol marketing, precarious work and gendered sexual risks
The alcohol industry in Nigeria uses sophisticated marketing strategies to influence drinking, and alcohol marketing regulations do not exist. This study examined the alcohol industry‘s strategy of using young women to promote beer in Benin City, Nigeria, and how sexualized beer marketing, as precarious employment, creates a context of risk for sexual exploitation. We conducted interviews and focus groups with beer promoters and their patrons and…
‘I cannot stop taking weed cos it makes me survive’
Studies on cannabis criminalization that interrogate the experiences of users are mostly of western origin. Relatively little is known about the experiences of cannabis users in Africa. This study explored cannabis use and criminal sanctions based on the experiences of users. It draws on qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews with street-involved youth (n = 97) recruited through time-location sampling from 11 purposively selected …
Cannabis use for pain relief in the context of health service barriers
Intersecting social/structural factors and vulnerability to intimate partner violence
An emerging body of research has shown that women who live in highly coercive settings characterised by poverty and housing instability face a heightened risk of intimate partner violence. We seek to contribute to this literature by exploring how multiple, overlapping social and structural factors shape intimate partner violence (IPV) risk among women who use drugs (WWUD). Analysis of 16 in-depth interviews with WWUD in Uyo, Nigeria, framed by in…
Medicinal use of cannabis
We conducted a qualitative study to examine the enablers and barriers influencing the implementation of medical cannabis from the perspectives of practicing doctors and pharmacists within the African context. Interviews were conducted to investigate medical professionals' perceptions and concerns regarding medicinal cannabis. Three major themes were identified: beliefs about consequences, optimism, and environmental resources and context. Dependi…
The socio-economic context of entry and exit from retail drug dealing
The dynamics of envy in the street field
Although emotions are integral to criminal violence, little research has explicitly explored the role of emotions in drug market violence. This study uses the ‘sociology of emotions’ and the concept of ‘street field’ to understand how envy shapes conflicts in a retail drug market. The study draws upon 31 in-depth interviews conducted with male retail drug dealers in Uyo, Nigeria. Envy, a pervasive feature of a highly conflictual street market fie…
The challenge of youth unemployment in Nigeria
Nigeria is home to a significant and growing “youth” population, over a third of it below 24 years of age. The demographic potential for productivity and growth this group represents occurs alongside large-scale unemployment among young people of working age. The “unemployment crisis” has deep historical roots and exists within a wider context of poor governance, insecurity, conflict, and poverty. Policy norms and practices to address youth unemp…
Structural violence and everyday survival during Covid-19 lockdown
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