Using intensive interviews with 131 female heroin users, Huan Gao explores the careers of these women in China under the changing social contexts of the reform era.
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Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...
Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
