Magister Social Work -MSW / Heroin usage is on the increase in the Western Cape province of South Africa owing to
globalization and to increased access to the drug in this province. The goal of this study is to
explore the experiences of coloured heroin users in the Metro South area of Cape Town, which
stretches from Simons Town and Muizenberg to Retreat, Lavender Hill, Grassy Park, Parkwood
and Wynberg. These individuals have been found to congregate in the Wynberg CBD. The
overarching theoretical framework for the purpose of this research is social constructionism and
symbolic interactionism, using a qualitative means of inquiry. Snowball sampling was used to
recruit prospective participants and data was collected by means of in-depth interviews, with a
semi structures interviewing schedule. The questions informed the subsequent themes and
categories that arise from the data collection process.
Snowball sampling was employed in this case, a non-probability sample, in which participants
were recruited via key informants. The sample distribution included 13 participants, 10 of which
were heroin users (5 female, 5 male) and the remaining 3 were key informants which contributed
to triangulation of the data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/6212 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Caswell, Dominique |
| Contributors | Henderson, N., Florence, M. |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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