We examined heroin use among 15 White middle-class women using data from in-depth qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation between May 1996 and April 1999. These women represent a subsample of a diverse group of 550 in an ethnographic study of heroin use and dealing in New York City. Our analysis is organized into four sections: (1) a demographic sketch, (2) the first time, (3) mode of administration and patterns of use, and (4) heroin in the medicine cabinet. Heroin use among these women was not related to poverty or lack of opportunity, social disenfranchisement, defective or addictive personalities, childhood trauma, or seeking membership into deviant subcultures. While some of these discourses of adversity and thrill seeking may have surfaced in individual stories, the do...
Other family advantages included her brother-in-law's publishing contacts; her brothers' college education (at a time when "only one-tenth of 1 per cent" of Americans attended college [Pessen 87] ); their successful New York law professions, comfortable incomes, and advantageous marriages.4 Further, the Sedgwick men's extensive networks linked the family with other participants in Democratic politics and with such literary associations as the Belles Lettres and the Bread and Cheese Clubs.5 Such social and political capital could not position Catharine Sedgwick in what she ironically called "good society" (Sedgwick, "Journal" 134), where those with the most money held reputations as "the city's chief intellectual as well as social adornment" (Pessen 233).6 Yet it sufficed to secure her a...
EPA is proposing to partially approve and partially disapprove the revision to the State Implementation Plan (SIP) addressing regional haze submitted by the State of New York on March 15, 2010, and supplemented on August 2, 2010. New York's revised SIP reduces regional haze during the first planning period from 2008 through 2018. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act and EPA's rules that require states to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, man-made impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas caused by emissions of air pollutants located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). EPA is proposing a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) to address the deficiencies identified in our proposed partial disapproval of ...
This article examines the behavioral practices and health risks associated with preparing crack cocaine for injection. Using an ethno-epidemiological approach, injection drug users (n=38) were recruited between 1999 and 2000 from public settings in New York City and Bridgeport, Connecticut and responded to a semistructured interview focusing on crack injection initiation and their most recent crack injection. Study findings indicate that methods of preparing crack for injection were impacted by a transforming agent, heat applied to the "cooker," heroin use, age of the injector, and geographic location of the injector. The findings suggest that crack injectors use a variety of methods to prepare crack, which may carry different risks for the transmission of bloodborne pathogens. In parti...
NORFOLK The sun is already low in the sky over Norfolk Naval Station when the guests arrive. They're running a little late. It took longer than expected to get their double-decker bus through security and onto the pier.
Also fighting the fight are the 2,188 nurses at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Hundreds of nurses there protested on June 3 in the sweltering heat. William Honeycutt, the lead delegate for the Milstein Hospital Building told the AmNews there are three main areas the nurses are working to change. "We need better staffing. We work a lot of overtime and we need more nurses. We're also working on retirement help funding and we want cost-of-living raises. According to Randi Hoffman of the 36,000-member New York State Nurses Union, upper management at the hospital had gotten hefty raises while nurses went without raises.
EPA is proposing four separate and independent determinations related to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island (NY-NJ-CT) one- hour and 1997 eight-hour ozone nonattainment areas. The boundaries of the one-hour and eight-hour ozone nonattainment areas differ slightly. If EPA's determination that the area is currently attaining the eight- hour standard is finalized, EPA's ozone implementation regulation provides that the requirements for the States to submit certain reasonable further progress plans, attainment demonstrations, contingency measures and any other planning requirements of the Clean Air Act related to attainment of that ozone standard shall be suspended for as long as the area continues to attain the standard. A determination of attainment does not constitute a redesig...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving a proposed revision to the New York State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone concerning the control of volatile organic compounds. The proposed SIP revision consists of amendments to Title 6 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations Part 228, ``Surface Coating Processes, Commercial and Industrial Adhesives, Sealants and Primers,'' Part 234, ``Graphic Arts,'' and Part 241, ``Asphalt Pavement and Asphalt Based Surface Coating.'' The intended effect of this action is to approve control strategies, required by the Clean Air Act, which will result in emission reductions that will help attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standards for ozone.
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