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Race And Problem Drug Use In An English City, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Race And Problem Drug Use In An English City, Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
t: The primary aim of this article is to look at the impact of drugs on the drug-using Black population, and in doing so, the article draws comparative attention to drug use within the White community. The article is based on a research study of problem drug users registered with a London drugs project in 2000 and 2001. During the period of fieldwork, the vast majority of clients of the drug project were male, and the gap in the sex composition of the clients was more conspicuous in the Black group. For the sake of clarity in the use of …