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Drug use among British Bangladeshis in London: a macro-structural perspective focusing on disadvantages contributing to individuals' drug use trajectories and engagement with treatment services.
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Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy . Apr2019, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p125-132. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Aims: The main aim of our study was to produce an understanding of factors contributing to drug-using trajectories among men and women from a Bangladeshi background living in East London. Methods: Fifteen semi-structured, one-to-one interviews were conducted with male and female Bangladeshi drug users accessing treatment services. A macro-structural lens was adopted to interpret participants' accounts of their drug use and explored the intersecting factors that at a micro, meso, and macro level impacted on their drug-using trajectories. Findings: Problem drug use (heroin and crack cocaine) among participants was the result of inter-related factors such as their friendship networks and the embeddedness of drugs in drug-using networks, the structural disadvantages participants experienced, and the need for concealment of their drug use which impacted on participants' effective utilisation of drug treatment services. Problem drug use was a functional way of responding to and dealing with social, economic, and cultural disconnection from mainstream institutions as participants faced severe multiple disadvantages engendering stigma and shame. Conclusions: We propose a 'life-focused' intervention aimed at creating extra opportunities and making critically-needed resources available in the marginalised environment of the study's participants, which are key to restoring and maintaining agency and sustaining well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SUBSTANCE abuse treatment
*SUBSTANCE abuse risk factors
*CRACK cocaine
*FRIENDSHIP
*HEROIN
*INTERVIEWING
*RESEARCH methodology
*PSYCHOTHERAPY
*SEX distribution
*SHAME
*SOCIAL isolation
*SOCIAL stigma
*PATIENT participation
*ASIANS
*SOCIOECONOMIC factors
*TREATMENT programs
*WELL-being
*PSYCHOLOGY of drug abusers
*PSYCHOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09687637
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134784794
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1421143