{"product_id":"social-networks-drug-injectors-lives-and-hivaids-aids-prevention-and-mental-health-0306460793","title":"Social Networks, Drug Injectors Lives, and HIV\/AIDS (Aids Prevention and Mental Health)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0306460793\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Friedman, Samuel R.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV\/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV.The authors recount the groundbreaking use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York. They provide a detailed documentary of the lives of community members. They describe drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group.Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV\/AIDS shows that social networks and contexts are of crucial importance in understanding and fighting the AIDS epidemic. These findings should revitalize prevention efforts and reshape social policy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735554654496,"sku":"NEW0306460793","price":189.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61YN-uIb_GL.jpg?v=1779487951","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/social-networks-drug-injectors-lives-and-hivaids-aids-prevention-and-mental-health-0306460793","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}