Table 1.

Categories, Themes and Exemplary Quotes of Positive Recovery-related Support among Tijuana female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs), 2009 (n=47)

Positive Support Type	Participant	Themes	Quote
Instrumental	Luisa, 41	Financial support for recovery program Exiting drug use environment	“My son wants to take me to [border town], that I go get enrolled [at a recovery facility] there, so my family can go see me, because that’s where my whole family is… I don’t want them to just leave me there… And he said that wouldn’t happen, that he would talk to my sisters so that they would visit me.”
	Carmen, 38	Exiting drug use environment Housing support	“Being with my mother, there, it’s a different thing, there aren’t vices, and there are no drugs… I wasn’t using anything”
	Ana, 30	Childcare support Custody of children contingent on sobriety	“First [my plan] is to get sober, be okay off drugs, to be with my kids more… [My sister will] give [my kids] back to me, she says “first you have to show me with your actions, not just because you’ve been clean a month will I give them back to you, you have to get through some time, so I see you want to change for me to give them to you.”
Emotional	Alicia, 31	Family members visiting rehabilitation center	“[In one rehabilitation center] when I wasn’t on drugs I felt better, I was a little fat, big cheeks, and they let me go out. My older sister would come and visit me at the center, it made her happy to see me, my mom saw that I was looking good, that didn’t matter as much to me but my dad, when he would go, I wanted him to see how good I looked, because it was my dad who always supported me the most.
	Nayeli, 31	Entering recovery with partner for mutual support Caring, encouragement	“[When I had withdrawal] he did the washing, the ironing, he cleaned up the room… three days in the center the withdrawal hit me, and I told him ‘you know what, let’s get out of here, this center, we’re done with it,’ The truth was I wanted to get high again. [He told me] ‘Are you crazy? You’re crazy, because we went to the center for a reason!’… And we’re still there [at the center]… we’ve been there four months.”
	Luisa, 41	Respect, love Perceived support despite little contact	“Right now I almost never talk to [my children], I mean, it’s not good the example I’m setting for them, but they don’t hold that against me, they respect me a lot, and they love me… in comparison with other women and their children, I’ve seen that they respect me a lot… And I love them very much too.”