@article{ref1,
title="Putting drug use in context. Life-lines of African American women who smoke crack",
journal="Journal of substance abuse treatment",
year="1998",
author="Boyd, C. J. and Hill, E. and Holmes, C. and Purnell, R.",
volume="15",
number="3",
pages="235-249",
abstract="The purpose of this exploratory study was to describe a group of African American women who smoke crack. Using aggregate data from 208 interviews with women crack smokers, we randomly selected 25 women's interview data to create the 25 life-lines. These life-lines were developed in a similar manner to the time-line analysis described by Fullilove and her colleagues (1992); we focused on events that are either extraordinarily disturbing (e.g., rape, incest, death of a child, etc.), events that are usual but often stressful (e.g., birth of a child, death of a parent, etc.), and on periods of drug use. We chose this method of analysis so as to highlight the context in which many women come to use crack cocaine. The life-lines provided a retrospective (but time-ordered) perspective and in several ways provided preliminary support for a stress-diathesis perspective.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0740-5472",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}