War Stories
Aids Prevention and the Street Narratives of Drug Users
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4624784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Singer (0000-0002-2040-4622, Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, Connecticut), Glenn Scott (Hispanic Health Council), Scott Wilson (0000-0003-3510-4240, Southwest and Northeast United States), Scott R Wilson (0000-0002-8922-059X, Southwest and Northeast United States), D Easton (0009-0008-2163-8536, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), M R Weeks (0000-0001-7493-0276, Institute for Community Research), Margaret Weeks (0000-0002-7387-1259, Institute for Community Research) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 589-611 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/104973201129119325 |
| PMID | 11554190 |
| OpenAlex | W2148036581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 30 |
The day-to-day discourse of illicit drug users is replete with stylized narratives of street experience. These "war stories," as they are popularly known, are shared among drug users as they hustle for money, purchase drugs, get high, and hang out in diverse street locations. Drug-user narratives, which describe complex adventures and grave suffering, are primary ethnographic sources of information about patterns of drug consumption and risk behaviors. Importantly, in the time of AIDS, street narratives provide a much-needed window on the generally hidden lives of socially marginalized street drug users. As part of an effort to put the analysis of drug-user war stories to use in HIV prevention, in this article the authors analyze a corpus of street narratives told to members of an HIV-prevention research team in Hartford, Connecticut
Art · Drug · Drug prevention · Literature · Narrative · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Street drugs · Substance abuse · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Psychology
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Recovery Narratives, War Stories, and Nostalgia
The Concept of Culture
Writing About Risk
Social Networks of Drug Users in High-Risk Sites
Beyond the “Fetishism of Words”
Participant and Staff Experiences in a Peer-Delivered HIV Intervention with Injection Drug Users
Using narratives to understand progress in youth alcohol and other drug treatment
Drug Injectors and Dealers in Odessa, Ukraine
Gender Differences Among Older Heroin Users
Street addiction
What is the “Drug User Community”
Lessons from the Field
Is Ricoeur's Notion of Narrative Identity Useful in Understanding Recovery in Drug Addicts
Practicing Medical Anthropology at a Veterans Administration Medical Center
Older and Younger African Americans’ Story Schemas and Experiences of Living with HIV/Aids
Homebirth as Systems-Challenging Praxis
"Why Am I the Way I Am?" Narrative Work in the Context of Stigmatized Identities
If I Didn't Have HIV, I'd Be Dead Now
Altruism and Peer-Led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users
The Syringe as a Prosthetic
The Rush
Street Smarts and Urban Myths
Beggars and thieves
Taking Care of Business
Fast lives
Handbook of qualitative research
Narrative Fiction
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
The Narrativization of Experience in the Oral Style
The Interpretation of Cultures
W. H. R. Rivers Prize Essay (1992). Stories of Pain and the Problem of Aids Prevention
Suffering and its professional transformation
Anthropology and Culturally Targeted Aids Prevention
HIV seroprevalence among street-recruited injection drug and crack cocaine users in 16 US municipalities
HIV risk-related sex behaviors among injection drug users, crack smokers, and injection drug users who smoke crack
Taking Care of Business—The Heroin User's Life on the Street
Narratives of Elder Parental Death
Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]
Aids and US Ethnic Minorities
In the subjunctive mode
Why Humans Have Cultures
Targeted Sampling
In Search of the Good
Culture, Critical Theory, and Reproductive Illness Behavior in Haiti
Personal Stories
Aids Alibis
Ethnography and Aids
Why do Puerto Rican injection drug users inject so often
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2019 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |