On the Trail of Addiction

Researchers map drug users’ moment-to-moment experiences as they travel the urban landscape.

By some measures, Baltimore has more heroin users than any other American city. Yet we don’t really see them. They are a part of the city’s complex drug economy: They are buyers and sellers, participants in treatment programs, inhabitants of jail and prison. Full Story »

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Amy Rebecca Pfeiffer
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by Amy Rebecca Pfeiffer - Mar. 12, 2011

This is decent journalism. I would have liked to hear from a participant in the program. to balance it out.

I think is a great idea. I would have liked to see more of their crime stat observations. I think the study has a lot of limitations that should have been included. Also, investigator disclosures should have been included.

"There are significant studies of animals, about how they move and where they move in particular environments. We wanted to do something similar with our human participants,”

Slippery slope. What’s next, implantable human tracking devices?

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