Folklore of the Heroin Addict

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Bibliographic Data

ID2765402
AuthorsMichael H Agar, Michael Agar (corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume84
Issue332
Pages175
Publication date1971-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/538988
OpenAlexW2324980698
LanguageEN
Citations received12

RESEARCH WITH MALE addict-patients at the Lexington Clinical Research Center,' shows that a set of shared, learned rules and related behaviors characterizes the of the urban heroin addict.2 This is a culture about which very little is known. During informal conversations and interviews with informants, it became apparent that the culture of addiction, like other cultures, included folkloristic items in its repertory of shared knowledge. Folklore, as a part of the whole, can serve as a focal point for pervasive cultural themes. Such a use of folklore is not without precedent. As Bascom notes

Addiction · Drug · Folklore · Heroin · Point (geometry) · Psychiatry · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Psychology

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