“You’re friends until everybody runs out of dope”: A framework for understanding tie meaning, purpose, and value in social networks

Ezell, Jerel M.; Walters, Suzan M.; Olson, Brooke; Kaur, Aashna; Jenkins, Wiley D.; Schneider, John A.; Pho, Mai T.

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2022.07.003

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“…This finding illumines the potentially gendered, networked nature of strengths-based dispositions [ 72 ], which may portend differential levels of intravention. Moreover, the observed gendered difference in harm reduction knowledge-sharing and practices may point to a heightened sense of “social responsibility” among women toward their social networks [ 73 ]. It is plausible that these women were socialized with expectations to exhibit traits such as empathy, compassion, and nurturing–traits all more commonly ascribed to women relative to men [ 74 , 75 ].…”

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How do people who use opioids express their qualities and capacities? An assessment of attitudes, behaviors, and opportunities

Ezell,

Pho,

Simek

et al. 2024

Harm Reduct J

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People who nonmedically use drugs (PWUD) face intricate social issues that suppress self-actualization, communal integration, and overall health and wellness. “Strengths-based” approaches, an under-used pedagogy and practice in addiction medicine, underscore the significance of identifying and recognizing the inherent and acquired skills, attributes, and capacities of PWUD. A strengths-based approach engenders client affirmation and improves their capacity to reduce drug use-related harms by leveraging existing capabilities. Exploring this paradigm, we conducted and analyzed interviews with 46 PWUD who were clients at syringe services programs in New York City and rural southern Illinois, two areas with elevated rates of opioid-related morbidity and mortality, to assess respondents’ perceived strengths. We located two primary thematic modalities in which strengths-based ethos is expressed: individuals (1) being and advocate and resource for harm reduction knowledge and practices and (2) engaging in acts of continuous self-actualization. These dynamics demonstrate PWUD strengths populating and manifesting in complex ways that both affirm and challenge humanist and biomedical notions of individual agency, as PWUD refract enacted, anticipated, and perceived stigmas. In conclusion, programs that blend evidence-based, systems-level interventions on drug use stigma and disenfranchisement with meso and micro-level strengths-based interventions that affirm and leverage personal identity, decision-making capacity, and endemic knowledge may help disrupt health promotion cleavages among PWUD.

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How do people who use opioids express their qualities and capacities? An assessment of attitudes, behaviors, and opportunities

Ezell,

Pho,

Simek

et al. 2024

Harm Reduct J

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“…Emellertid är delandet sällan en solidarisk handling, i alla fall inte primärt, även om det kan uppfattas så. Om Jesper inte lyckas med att skaffa pengar till alla piller kommer han att prioritera det egna drogintaget före de övrigas, och det är här som den negativa reciprociteten framför allt tar sig uttryck (jfr Ezell et al 2022). Även övernattningen kommer att prioriteras ner för att han ska bli av med sin abstinens.…”

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Konsten att göra (sprut)utbyten: Sprutbytets betydelse i skärningspunkten mellan politik, yrkespraktik och människors vardagsliv

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The Art of Needle Exchange: The Significance of Needle Exchange Programs at the Intersection of Politics, Professional Practice, and People's Everyday Lives This doctoral thesis discusses how social meanings are constructed in needle exchange programs. For nearly four decades, Sweden has implemented needle exchange programs to prevent the spread of bloodborne viral infections. However, a restrictive drug policy and resistance to harm reduction efforts have led to limitations in access to these programs, both in terms of geography and through an exclusionary regulatory framework. The effectiveness of needle exchange programs in reducing the risk of infection associated with injection-related behaviour is clearly positive. However, there are limited scientific studies on the more socially oriented meanings of needle exchange programs. With needle exchange programs as a physical and social place, the overarching aim of this thesis is to understand how the creation of social meanings of needle exchanges is achieved through time, space, and social interaction, primarily between the program's visitors and its staff. The empirical material primarily consists of 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observations and informal conversations at two needle exchange programs in southern Sweden, as well as in the everyday lives of individuals who visit these programs. Through extensive ethnographic narratives and analyses based on theories of everyday life, resistance, time, and gifts, the thesis demonstrates that needle exchange programs hold multiple meanings created through interactions between visitors and staff. Two concurrent and parallel tracks contribute to understanding what needle exchange programs mean to those who visit them. One track starts with a counterproductive regulatory framework where requirements and rules result in some visitors coming less often than they need to or not at all. The other track involves countless material and relational exchanges that foster positive experiences of the needle exchange program, turning it into a place of social hope and a changed future. One of the thesis's most significant findings concerns the social work that takes place at the needle exchange program in the interactions between visitors and staff. These interactions also occur at the intersection of the norms and hierarchies of the drug world and the Swedish dream of a drug- free society. In the waiting room of the needle exchange program, negotiations are constantly underway to maintain it as a place of hopeful encounters, as opposed to a destructive refuge.

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“…The goal of a social network is to create a system that allows users to connect, exchange and share useful information on the internet platform (Gou and Wu, 2022). The goal of a social network is to create a system that allows users to connect, exchange and share useful information on the internet platform (Ezell et al, 2022). In addition, social networks also have the goal of creating a valuable community, enhancing the role of each user ( (Ezell et al, 2022).…”

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“…The goal of a social network is to create a system that allows users to connect, exchange and share useful information on the internet platform (Ezell et al, 2022). In addition, social networks also have the goal of creating a valuable community, enhancing the role of each user ( (Ezell et al, 2022).…”

Section: The Moderator: Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green innovation in agriculture development: the impact of environment awareness, technology spillover, and social networks

Hien

Khanh

2023

IJSAMI

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Green agriculture with the benefits of environmental protection, food safety and high economic value is becoming the destination of modern agriculture. Therefore, green innovation in agriculture leads to sustainable development, thereby improving the efficiency of management and use of natural resources while enhancing adaptability and resilience to the impacts of climate change. This study proposed the relationships among environment awareness, technology spillover (TS), social networks, and green innovation. Additionally, this study also investigates moderating role of social networks on green innovation and sustainable development. The probability sampling method was employed to develop a research sample. The research uses correlation analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) to analyse the data of valid observations collected in the structured questionnaire survey in Vietnam. The results indicate that environment awareness and TS have direct positive impacts on green innovation. Moreover, social networks play the mediator in enhancing the innovation towards green agricultural production.

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“You’re friends until everybody runs out of dope”: A framework for understanding tie meaning, purpose, and value in social networks

Cited by 5 publications

References 130 publications

How do people who use opioids express their qualities and capacities? An assessment of attitudes, behaviors, and opportunities

How do people who use opioids express their qualities and capacities? An assessment of attitudes, behaviors, and opportunities

Konsten att göra (sprut)utbyten: Sprutbytets betydelse i skärningspunkten mellan politik, yrkespraktik och människors vardagsliv

Green innovation in agriculture development: the impact of environment awareness, technology spillover, and social networks

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