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Author Taylor, Avril.

Title Women drug users : an ethnography of a female injecting community / Avril Taylor
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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 W'PONDS  362.29082 Tay/Wdu  AVAILABLE
Description 182 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Starting Off -- 3. Scoring and Grafting -- 4. Social Networks -- 5. The Women and Their Children -- 6. Coming Off -- 7. Conclusion
Summary It charts their entry into drugs, the various ways in which they provide for their drug use, their relationships with friends, partners, family members and children as well as attitudes towards professionals such as social workers with whom they come into contact by virtue of their status as drug using mothers. Finally, the efforts the women make to give up their use of drugs is examined along with the reasons which make these endeavours difficult
The evidence suggests that, ironically, the lifestyle which evolves around their use of drugs offers an arena in which the women are able to find a degree of independence and purpose otherwise lacking in their lives and which makes their drug using lifestyle attractive even when disadvantages become apparent
This book provides an account of the lives and experiences of a group of female intravenous drug users in Glasgow. Based on participant observation of the women in their own setting and in-depth interviews with the women, it is the first full ethnographic account of the lifestyle of female drug users
Analysis Glasgow (Scotland)
Women Drug abuse
Notes Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-173) and index
Subject Drug abuse -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Intravenous drug abusers -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Women -- Drug use -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Substance Abuse, Intravenous -- ethnology.
Women -- psychology.
SUBJECT Scotland -- ethnology. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012606Q000208
LC no. 93213810
ISBN 0198257961