Ric Curtis

One Backer asked us to explain Respondent Driven Sampling or RDS, and why we used it to recruit people for the study. We've tried to do that in layman's terms here. Hopefully, readers will get the ...

In going over our recruitment records for the Fanteca project, we found that our total expenditure for interviews and referral fees was $4,465, sixty five dollars more than what we had estimated in...

Our last day of data collection was Saturday, October 28. We had quite a few John Jay College students show up and they did more interviews on the last day than on any other. In total, the project ...

For many students, the Fanteca Project is their first opportunity to work on something "real," something that matters, something related to what they have been studying in school, something that gi...

One of our students in our "Drug Use & Abuse" classes in the Anthropology Department, Saleh Alhaithami, arrived for the interviews in style and he was very well-received by the folks that we in...

Our research team took advantage of the mild weather lastweekend and students completed 107 interviews with “fanteca” users. We’re nowup to 157 interviews, more than halfway to our goal of 300. The...

In our pilot Fanteca study of August, 2017, we found that both injectors and non-injectors reported significant numbers of overdoses over the last year. More injectors overdosed than non-injectors,...