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This chapter delves into the grave challenges faced by Hispanic heroin users in urban settings, highlighting the deep reliance on community support amidst dire circumstances. It examines the complex interplay of street life, including the prevalence of prostitution and homelessness, and the specific risks associated with heroin injection. Despite high interest in accurate HIV information, the lack of effective risk reduction techniques, such as safe needle practices and protected sex, emphasizes the urgent need for targeted interventions. The observations presented here reveal the struggles and realities of those living on the margins of society.
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Urban street drug scene – the extensive reliance of people on each other The Not-So Sunny Side of the Street • Shouting galleries, crack houses, brothels and the like, are considered extensions of the street • Prostitution • Homelessness A Direct Observation of A Heroin Fix Story – pages 212-219 Perceptions of Injection Risks • Risk – reduction techniques not used • Needle use • Unprotected sex • Need for safer injection practices • It is difficult to avoid HIV exposure behavior associated with life on inner-city streets • This author of this chapter (his research) showed there was a high interest in having correct information about HIV, Etc
