ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the core values and attitudes of drug users that shape and structure participation in the field of public injecting. The most widespread doxic attitude articulated by the entire cohort related to a need for urgency when purchasing/carrying illicit drugs, accessing/exiting public injecting sites and preparing/injecting within street-based settings. The structuring structure here termed 'environment' relates to respondents' relationship with both the physical and social settings contained within and around public injecting sites. Injecting spaces within the public injecting habitus refer to the physical environments in which injecting drug use is situated and organised. The doxic attitude here refers to the way in which respondents internalise specific environments as extensions of their own corporeality. The internalisation of paraphernalia relates to the methods utilised by respondents to ensure access, availability and cleanliness of equipment for injecting purposes. The doxic attitude may be further regarded as an empirical representation of the struggle between agency and structure.
