TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: The Study of Drug Taking Rituals

• Introduction
• The Concept of Ritualization
• Description of the Study
• Heroin Rituals
• The Nesting of Cocaine in Heroin Rituals
• Transitions Between Rituals of Administration
• Rituals of Regulation: Instrumental Functions of Solitmy Drug Use Ritual
• Symbolic Elaboration in Solitary Drug Use Ritual
• Drug Use as a Social Ritual

Part II: Drug Use Rituals, Health Problems and Drug Policy

• Health Consequences of Chasing and Injecting: A Comparison
• Drug Sharing and HIV Transmission Risks: Frontloading and Backloading among Injecting Drug Users
• The Sharing of Needles and Other Injection Paraphernalia: An Ethnographic Analysis
• Is Needle Sharing a Ritual?
• Reaching the Unreached: Targeting Hidden IDU Populations with Clean Needles via Known Users
• Changing Cocaine Smoking Rituals in the Rotterdam Heroin Using Population
• Drug Use Contexts and HIV-Consequences: The Effect of Drug Policy on Patterns of Everyday Drug Use in Rotterdam and the Bronx

Part III: Self-regulation, Drug Culture and Drug Policy

• Social Determinants of Self Regulation in Psycho active Drug Use: Towards an Explanatory Model
• Drug Culture and Drug Policy: Implications for Future Development
• Summary
• An Overview of the Conclusions
• Glossary of Medical Terminology

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