New drug use among agricultural workers.
Research on drug use onset rarely examines the spatial dimensions of onset, owing to a literature that is overwhelming from urban areas of an industrialized country (United States). Narrative interviews from drug-using agricultural workers in contrast reveal another side of drug use onset, where influence of familiarity with place becomes evident, despite the expectation that the novelty and/or adventure within a lifestyle of seasonal employment and migratory labor that requires overnight accommodations on-the-season is likely to push/pull one into the first use of a new drug or the first drug that an individual has ever used.
Adjunct Faculty, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona , USA.
Keith V
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Bletzer
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000383:Agriculture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D012424:Rural Population; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult