Working with heroin sniffers: Clinical issues in preventing drug injection

Cathy Casriel; Don C. Des Jarlais; Ray Rodriguez; Samuel R. Friedman; Bruce Stepherson; Elizabeth Khuri

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Working with heroin sniffers: Clinical issues in preventing drug injection

Cathy Casriel, Don C. Des Jarlais, Ray Rodriguez, Samuel R. Friedman, Bruce Stepherson, Elizabeth Khuri

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Preventing illicit drug injection would be the ideal point for preventing HIV infection and AIDS among illicit drug injectors. This paper reports on clinical issues that arose in a program for intranasal ("sniffer") heroin users who were at high risk of injecting drugs. Extensive field notes were kept by the staff of the project. A generalized mistrust of authorities, denial of problems associated with non-injected drug use, and ambivalence about injecting were the major issues that arose during subject recruitment and the group sessions. The staff underwent trial and error learning, both becoming more confident in working with heroin sniffers, and finding better results for later participants in the study.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0740-5472(90)90031-K
State	Published - 1990

Keywords

AIDS
HIV
Heroin
injection
sniffers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Phychiatric Mental Health
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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