@article{ref1,
title="Needle fixation, the drug user's perspective: a qualitative study",
journal="Addiction",
year="2001",
author="McBride, A. J. and Pates, R. M. and Arnold, K. and Ball, N.",
volume="96",
number="7",
pages="1049-1058",
abstract="AIMS: Changing drug users' injecting behaviour is central to the project of drug services. Information about the idea of &quot;needle fixation&quot; is fragmentary and of uncertain relevance to contemporary injecting drug users. The aim of the study is to describe injecting drug users' ideas about needle fixation. PARTICIPANTS AND DESIGN: Twenty-four participants, some of whom identified themselves as needle fixated, were recruited from four drugs agencies in south Wales. Participants took part in semi-structured interviews, recorded, transcribed and qualitatively analysed using Atlas/ti software. FINDINGS: Participants describe a range of behaviours and experiences which fit with previous ideas of needle fixation, including ritualization, substitution of other drugs, injection of water and associations with deliberate-self-harm and sex. Participants describe high levels of needle aversion and add detail to previous partial descriptions of needle fixation. CONCLUSIONS: Issues conveniently considered together as needle fixation are current among injecting drug users and may be relevant to the inability of some drug users to change from injecting drug use.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-2140",
doi="10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.967104914.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.967104914.x"
}