ArticleJournal of addiction2013
Controlling chaos: the perceptions of long-term crack cocaine users in vancouver, british columbia, Canada.
Article in Journal of addiction, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The utilization and delivery of safer smoking practices and services: a narrative synthesis of the literature.Harm reduction journal · 2023Pooled it
- Exploring disparities: a regional analysis of harm reduction supply distribution and opioid-related deaths across Ontario's Public Health Units.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Supervised Inhalation Sites: Preventing Overdose and Reducing Health Inequities among People Who Use Drugs.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Examining prevalence and correlates of smoking opioids in British Columbia: opioids are more often smoked than injected.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2021Article
- Hoots and harm reduction: a qualitative study identifying gaps in overdose prevention among women who smoke drugs.Harm reduction journal · 2021Article
- Peer-engagement and its role in reducing the risky behavior among crack and methamphetamine smokers of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2016Article
- Risky and rushed public crack cocaine smoking: the potential for supervised inhalation facilities.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Decreasing Hepatitis C Incidence Among a Population With Repeated Tests: British Columbia, Canada, 1993-2011.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- A cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analysis of an unsanctioned supervised smoking facility in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2014Article
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Abstract
People who smoke crack cocaine are described as chaotic and more likely to engage in risky sex, polysubstance use and contract infectious diseases. However, little is known about how individuals perceive smoking crack as compared to other forms of cocaine use, especially injection. We explored the lived experience of people who smoke crack cocaine. Six gender-specific focus groups (n = 31) of individuals who currently smoke crack in Vancouver, Canada, were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide. Focus groups were transcribed and analyzed by constant comparative methodology. We applied Rhodes' risk environment to the phenomenological understanding that individuals have regarding how crack has affected their lives. Subjects reported that smoking rather than injecting cocaine allows them to begin "controlling chaos" in their lives. Controlling chaos was self-defined using nontraditional measures such as the ability to maintain day-to-day commitments and housing stability. The phenomenological lens of smoking crack instead of injecting cocaine "to control chaos" contributes a novel perspective to our understanding of the crack-smoking population. This study examines narratives which add to prior reports of the association of crack smoking and increased chaos and suggests that, for some, inhaled crack may represent efforts towards self-directed harm reduction.
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