TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Putting drug use in context. Life-lines of African American women who smoke crack
JO  - Journal of substance abuse treatment
A1  - Boyd, C. J.
A1  - Hill, E.
A1  - Holmes, C.
A1  - Purnell, R.
SP  - 235
EP  - 249
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0740-5472
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -