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Open marginality: Heroin epidemics in different groups
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Open marginality: Heroin epidemics in different groups

Michael Agar and Heather Schacht Reisinger
Journal of drug issues, Vol.31(3), pp.729-746
07/01/2001
DOI: 10.1177/002204260103100310

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Abstract

As part of a project to explain heroin use trends, a concept of "open marginality" is created to highlight how different groups impacted by heroin epidemics have a common historical experience. A reading of the history of epidemics in the U.S., together with the authors' work on two epidemics in the Baltimore region, demonstrate the diversity of groups who have been "at risk" over the years.
Case studies Epidemics Heroin Social conditions & trends

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