ABSTRACT
Prostitution, as a means of financing drug addictions, is one specific economic factor cited with alarming regularity in contemporary studies. The relationship between drugs and prostitution was not clear cut. Three women claimed that their involvement in drugs had directly led them into prostitution as it was the most easily accessible way of financing their habit. Of the forty prostitutes interviewed for this study, twenty had some experience, either formerly or currently, of some form of drug use. The close association between prostitution and crime is well established in the literature. One of the most crucial questions revolved around whether they had embarked on their criminal activities before they turned to prostitution, or whether it was prostitution and all its associated evils that prompted a drift into a more general criminality and deviance. The women who were immersed in the world of crime, drugs and prostitution all had different circumstances and individual motives prompting their involvement.
