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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Feucht, Thomas E.

Titel

Prostitutes on crack cocaine: Addiction, utility, and marketplace economics

Ist Teil von

• Deviant behavior, 1993-04, Vol.14 (2), p.91-108

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The connections between prostitution and drug use have long been a topic of social research. Much of this work has focused on the use of opiates, especially heroin. With the increasing availability of a smokable form of cocaine commonly called "crack," new questions have emerged about the basic relation between drugs and prostitution. Drawing on interviews with 39 crack-using female prostitutes, this article presents evidence of three different aspects of a prostitute's orientation to crack cocaine: the addictive nature of cocaine, the practical utility of cocaine use, and the marketplace economics of cocaine as it relates to prostitution. These three orientations overlap: The cocaine use of most women in the sample was consistent with two or three of the orientations. The uses and implications of this typology are discussed.