‘It’s not what you know but who you know’: Role of social capital in predicting risky injection drug use behavior in a sample of people who inject drugs in Baltimore City

Abstract

The result from this study can be used to inform and fill gaps in the field of harm reduction. The interplay between social support, social participation and norms of trust, reciprocity generated from the index's social network and its relationship with behavior of needle sharing demonstrates that these leverage points should be emphasized in future harm reduction interventions.