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The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction
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The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction Hardcover - 1991

by Richard C. Stephens


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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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  • Title The Street Addict Role: A Theory of Heroin Addiction
  • Author Richard C. Stephens
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 223
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press, Herndon, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991
  • ISBN 9780791406199 / 0791406199
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.25 x 0.75 in (23.52 x 15.88 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social role - United States, Drug abuse - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90039205
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.293

About the author

Richard C. Stephens is Professor of Sociology, Cleveland State University.

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