Opioid Overdoses: Drug, Set, Setting

Lived Experience

This article (Circumstances of overdose among street-involved, opioid-injecting women: Drug, set, and setting) shares insight on patterns of opioid overdose among women. Zinberg’s “drug, set, and setting” theoretical framework was applied to identify these patterns. Read more about Dr. Zinberg’s work here, in his work titled “Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use.”

Authors: Janna Ataiants, Alexis M.Roth, Silvana Mazzella, Stephen E. Lankenau

Check it out in the International Journal of Drug Policy

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