Peer injecting: Implications for injecting order and blood-borne viruses among men and women who inject heroin
21 February 2013
A large body of research has highlighted practices and rituals that characterise injecting drug use and behavioural and environmental risks that can contribute to the transmission of blood-borne viruses. Compared with other injecting practices, considerably less is known about peer injecting.
In this article, Karen McElrath and Julie Harris explore peer injecting and injecting order at initiation into injecting drug user (IDU) and during subsequent injection episodes. The results suggest gendered similarities as well as differences in terms of peer injecting, the order of injection and micro-risk contexts for blood-borne viruses.
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