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The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction

The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction

Stephens, Richard C.

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, the New Inequalities

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791406202
ISBN13: 9780791406205
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 3 1991
Pages: 223
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book provides a new answer to the question, Why do people use heroin and other street drugs? Drawing upon a growing body of studies of drug users conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it attempts to integrate their findings into a theoretically unified sociocultural explanation of heroin use. The theory, which draws heavily upon the insights of symbolic interactionist and role theory, posits that there is a street subculture of heroin users. The chief role in this subculture - the street addict role - becomes a blueprint for living for many heroin users. Addicts are heavily committed to this role and organize their behavior and self-identification around it. From this basic starting point, the theory explains how persons become and remain addicts and how they may eventually give up addictive behavior.

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