Women and girls who inject drugs are more likely than their male counterparts to acquire HIV. In addition to criminalization, punitive laws, and social stigma that puts all injecting drug users at increased risk, women are made even more vulnerable by social, economic, and culturally embedded power imbalances. Women and girls are also less likely to seek treatment and healthcare, even when they...

Through multidimensional scaling three factors—potential subject harm, use of manipulative illegitimate procedures, and the ratio between benefits and risks— were identified as the key characteristics associated with moral judgments of social psychological studies. Individuals who endorsed different ethical ideologies, however, differed in their emphasis of these factors. Situationists emphasiz...

BACKGROUND Rates of risky drinking among young Australians have increased substantially over the past 2 decades, resulting in significant community concern. OBJECTIVE To explore the social, cultural and economic contexts that underlie risky drinking among young people and the implications of these for general practitioners. DISCUSSION Effective strategies for reducing alcohol related harm a...

Why do interactions become more hostile when social relations shift from "me versus you" to "us versus them"? One possibility is that acting with a group can reduce spontaneous self-referential processing in the moral domain and, in turn, facilitate competitor harm. We tested this hypothesis in an fMRI experiment in which (i) participants performed a competitive task once alone and once with a ...

Despite clear lack of intent to harm those whom they carry, drug-using pregnant women have been constructed de facto criminal perpetrators. However, drug use falls short of being prima facie evidence of intent to harm, particularly in social circumstances where drug-using economics are endemic. The cases in this article signal the limits of tolerance and the increasingly conditional nature of p...

internet addiction refers to excessive using of the internet (daily over 3 hours). this phenomenon as a illness, psychological or social harm, is a widespread problem with serious consequences for the students, is increasing. the present study aimed to investigate the related factors with internet addiction among female students of yazd university residing in dormitory at academic year 2012-201...

Social work internationally is currently subject to debate. Some call for the abolition of social work, detailing legacies harm, inadequate practices and theoretical limitations. Central abolitionist thought tradition community build alternative futures in present, an area receiving less attention. This article adopts auto-ethnographic method, drawing on authors’ experiences UK – childhood as a...