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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
| العنوان: | 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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| المؤلفون: | Mantovani, N, Evans, C |
| بيانات النشر: | STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | St George's University of London: Repository |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf; application/msword |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109523/3/02_02_2018_Drug%20use%20a.pdf; https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109523/1/Bangladeshi-drug-use%20SORA.doc; Mantovani, N; Evans, C (2018) 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. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26 (2). pp. 125-132. ISSN 1465-3370 https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1421143 SGUL Authors: Mantovani, Nadia |
| الاتاحة: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109523/ https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109523/3/02_02_2018_Drug%20use%20a.pdf https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/109523/1/Bangladeshi-drug-use%20SORA.doc |
| Rights: | cc_by_nc_nd_4 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.30B8BE8A |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |