Street-level drug markets: Network structure and HIV risk
Abstract
Ethnographic and formal social network methods are used to define and situate three categories of injecting drug users – a core, an inner periphery and an outer periphery – in a street-level drug market scene. Different locations in these network structures are shown to be associated with different levels of AIDS risk behaviors and of HIV infection rates. A network perspective helps to understand HIV risks and to devise appropriate interventions.
Full citation:
Curtis R, Friedman SR, Neaigus A, Jose B, Goldstein MF, Ildefonso G (1995). Street-level drug markets: Network structure and HIV risk
Social Networks, 17 (3-4), 229-249. doi: 10.1016/0378-8733(95)00264-O.