Typology of instrumental drug users
The two distinct types of substances participants reported using.
Licit (pharmaceutical) and illicit (street)
How Best and Luckenbill (1980) described individuals engaged in deviance.
Loners
This represents the next most organizationally sophisticated associational form.
Colleagues
Doing drugs had this type of effect on all the participants
Changes in mood and energy levels, heart racing and mentally taste in their mouth.
On average women using cocaine spent this much per gram.
Between fifty and one hundred dollars.
This group consisted of women who reported a foundation of disordered eating, only later turning to street drugs for weight control.
The scroungers
In Adler and Adlers study of self-injurers, this is how they described loners, noting that they must find the deviance, decide to engage in it, and figure out how to do it themselves.
On their own
At the top of this organizational continuum are deviant blank, which are much larger than crews and extend over time and space.
Formal organizations
Stimulants interfered with what type of patterns among women
Sleeping and eating.
Prescriptions tended to cost women this amount a month.
Between forty and two hundred dollars
Women who initially used street drugs recreationally and later transformed their drug use into instrumental patterns for weight control purposes.
Opportunists
Prus and Grills (2003) further elaborated categories of individual deviance through their work on blank.
Solitary operators and subcultural participants.
This is pursued by individuals acting on their own behalf.
Occupational crime
What happened to any health problems that arose from women's drug use
It went undocumented and untreated by the medical establishment.
The associated costs varied according to what
Regularity and dosages, also by specific substances.
This term depicts the evolution through which their drug use patterns evolved.
Journeyers
Unlike other forms of deviant associations, where individuals learn from and support each other, loners evolve from what
Conforming behavior to nonconforming behavior without any aid.
This is committed with the support and encouragement of a legitimate formal organization, intended to advance the goals of the firm or agency.
Organizational crime
Since many women went to psychiatrists for their medications, appointments did not generally include blank
Physical exams.
The result of women hanging out with dealers or fellow users
The drugs costed them less.
These types of women reported a history of disordered eating prior to their instrumental prescription drug use for weight loss.
Conventional over-conformists
The participants that also acted alone, but their deviant behaviors were heavily influenced by particular group memberships
Subcultural.
Most studies of crime focus on crimes in the streets, a more socially injurious amount of deviance occurs through what.
White-collar crime
The types of heath questions or problems often varied according to what
The amount of drugs they were consuming.
A lot of women buying drugs often get their money through what
From families giving them enough allowance to support drug use.