Tragic Beauties: Heroin Images and Heroin Users

We present selected findings from “An Ethnography of Young Heroin Users” concerning media and youth-subculture influences on the initiation and continuation of heroin use among young adults ages 18–25. One hundred and two male and female participants were administered depth interviews and structured questionnaires pertaining to heroin initiation and continuation practices. A number of participants mentioned media depictions of heroin and membership in specific youth cultures in relation to their own heroin use. This complex relationship between heroin use, media, and subcultures is discussed. A common theme emerged from the depth interviews of fatalistic life outlooks, which were often linked with negative childhood experiences as well as with heroin use. Some of these young addicts romanticized heroin use and the tragedy of overdose. These findings are discussed with reference to further research and possible interventions.

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Young Adults’ Contextualization of Environmental and Sustainability Issues: A Critical Issue for Environmental Education Intervention

Journal of Education in Black Sea Region ◽

10.31578/jebs.v3i1.116 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anthony KOLA-OLUSANYA

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Environmental Education ◽

Lived Experiences ◽

Critical Issue ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Research Approach ◽

Face To Face ◽

Research Questions ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Insight Into

As soon as decision makers are expected to make differences towards sustainable future, young adults’ ability to make informed and sound decisions is considered essential towards securing our planet. This study provides an insight into young adults’ knowledge of key environment and sustainability issues. To answer the key research questions, data were obtained using a qualitative phenomenographic research approach and collected through 18 face-to-face in-depth interviews with research participants. The findings of this study suggest that young adults lived experiences that play a huge role in their level of awareness of topical environmental and sustainability issues critical to humanity’s future on earth.

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Transition from Childcare Institutions to Adulthood for Youth: Through the Lens of Identity and Gender

Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond ◽

10.1177/2349300320980553 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 234930032098055

Author(s):

Garima Sharma

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Social Factor ◽

Smooth Transition ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Male And Female ◽

Female Youth ◽

Youth Identity ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender

This article explores the transition of youth from childcare institutions as young adults through the lens of youth identity and gender. The research revolves around rethinking the delicate boundaries of adolescence and adulthood for the ‘institutionalised’ youth that is already on the edge of the society. This research tries to understand and decode the experiences of youth, who have lived in the childcare institutions. The childcare institutions reinforce the gender roles through its practices and structure, enabling gaps and challenges for both male and female youth outside the childcare institutions. There is an absence of a strong mechanism, enabling the smooth transition of youth from childcare institutions to adulthood. This results in unprepared young adults for an unplanned transition, fostering several challenges on them as they exit the childcare system. This is a qualitative study. The research includes both male and female youth who have lived in childcare institutions situated in Delhi. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with the youth. This study finds that youth leaving the childcare institutions are at higher risks of having negative adult outcomes in life. While there is an absolute absence of any body or mechanism to help the youth transit smoothly, childcare institutions reinforce the inferiority and exclusion on a child during the stay period, creating a foundation for youth to perceive the social factor outside the institutions.

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Addiction Time and Intellectual Impairment in Heroin Users

Psychological Reports ◽

10.1177/0033294187060003-216.1 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽

pp. 1099-1105

Author(s):

Carlo Cipolli ◽

Ivan Galliani

Keyword(s):

Test Scores ◽

Intellectual Functioning ◽

Rorschach Test ◽

Intellectual Impairment ◽

Short Term ◽

Heroin Use ◽

Heroin Users

Rorschach test scores for male heroin users and nonusers ( ns = 15 each) were compared, to ascertain whether use of heroin influences intellectual impairment (as measured by such indicators of intellectual functioning as F+% and W+% responses). While the results show intellectual impairment to be greater in heroin users than in nonusers, the parametric and nonparametric indicators do not consistently show more marked impairment in long-term (4 to 5 yr. of addiction) than in short-term users (1 to 2 yr.). While intellectual functioning clearly seems influenced by heroin use, further research is required to ascertain the effect of the length of use either by comparing test and retest scores over a substantial interval or by matching samples including subjects with even longer careers of addiction.

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Craving and implicit attitude toward heroin use and their relationships with the levels of heroin dependence and methadone adherence in heroin users

Journal of Addictive Diseases ◽

10.1080/10550887.2021.1889782 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Peng-Wei Wang ◽

Huang-Chi Lin ◽

Kun-Hua Lee ◽

Lin Pai-Cheng ◽

Hung-Chi Wu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heroin Dependence ◽

Implicit Attitude ◽

Heroin Use ◽

Heroin Users

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Associations between adverse childhood experiences and contraceptive use among young adults in Honduras

Child Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105381 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 123 ◽

pp. 105381

Author(s):

Sarah Huber-Krum ◽

Stephanie Spaid Miedema ◽

Joann Wu Shortt ◽

Andrés Villaveces ◽

Howard Kress

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Adverse Childhood Experiences ◽

Contraceptive Use ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Adverse Childhood

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The transion of consumption patterns of heroin users in Belgrade

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(11)71834-x ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S2) ◽

pp. 123-123

Author(s):

S. Vucetic-Arsic ◽

M. Stankovic ◽

S. Alcaz ◽

M. Nikic

Keyword(s):

Drug Users ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Consumption Patterns ◽

Lifetime Prevalence ◽

Young Population ◽

Heroin Use ◽

Heroin Users ◽

Survey Technique ◽

Special Hospital ◽

Main Pattern

ObjectiveDuring the last two decades illicit drug use in Belgrade has been changed.Previously, one of the most common methods of illicit heroin use was via intravenous injection. In 1987, injecting drug, as main consumption patterns was accepted by 90,6% of patients, although intravenous administration fell to 75,5% in 1995.The aim of the study was to observe if the main pattern of heroin consumption had changed lately.MethodsThe study included 382 illicit drug users (mean age 28,8 ± 4,7; both gender) treated in Special Hospital for Addiction, Belgrade in period of a year (Sept. 2009–2010).We used data from Pompidou questionnaire and calculated prevalence through standard survey technique.ResultsA total of 94,5% respondents reported a lifetime prevalence of heroin as a main drug, 1,1% of other opiates, 0,3% of cocaine and amphetamine. More than 92,7% of respondents used heroin in the last month regularly. The lifetime prevalence consumption mode for intranasal use was 44,3%, injecting 39,8% and smoking/ inhaling 13,9%.First injectable route experience is reported for age 17–19 = 11.9%; for 20–22 = 25.6%; for 23–26 = 30-3%. The total number of 79,8% reported negative HIV testing result, 0,5% positive result.ConclusionThe consumption model changed in last 10 years and our study confirmed significant diversity. Intranasal administration linked with young population of heroin addicts, who never or rarely use injectable route with low level of HIV infection. Older addicts prefer intravenous use and often change to intranasal route later, for safety or damaged process of peripheral blood vessel.

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