THE AUTHORS
Samuel R. Friedman, Ph.D., sociologist, is the Director of HIV/AIDS Research at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (New York, USA) and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Theoretical Synthesis Core at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research. He has authored over 400 publications on HIV, STI, and drug use epidemiology and prevention. He has both studied drug users organizations since 1985 and worked closely with drug user activists in their efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and other medical and social harms that drug users encounter. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks (Murders most foul: Poems against war by a World Trade Center survivor, Central Jersey Coalition against Endless War, 2005, and Needles, drugs, and defiance: Poems to organize by, North American Syringe Exchange Network, 1999) and a book of poetry (Seeking to make the world anew: Poems of the Living Dialectic, 2008, Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books).