Table 2.

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

Negative Support Type	Participant	Themes	Quote
Instrumental	Perla, 34	Help injecting drugs	“…Even though he saw that I worked, he bought me drugs, but he started hanging out with another girl, and I think he shares his money with her now…now he doesn’t want [to see me]. [He says] ‘No, no, no, look for someone or pay someone else to inject you, because I can’t’… I won’t beg him, but I try to [inject] myself and it takes me up to an hour to dose myself, and since I was already in withdrawal, I felt really bad.”
	Additional quotes	Partners paying for drugs	“I used to [have sex with other guys for money]… (Interviewer: When did that stop?) When I got sick this last time… he took care of me. I feel bad, you know, going out. (Interviewer: If you need a dosage of drugs?)… He’ll bring it to me.” “[If it could actually happen, [in the next year my life would be] without drugs, with my son by my side, and a man that I love, because if you don’t love him, that’s the problem with the guy I’m with right now, I just don’t love him. He’s a lot older than my, and its really not for anything more than the drugs that I’m with him. If you think about it, almost all the guys I’ve been with, it was just for the drugs, that is, I’ve never actually loved any of them.
Emotional	Valentina, 45	Failure of mutual recovery support Drug use as intimacy building in relationships Unsupportive, tempting or enabling behavior	“He influenced my consumption of heroin a lot. I don’t blame my partners, but yes, it does reverberate, it does influence… it’s impossible to be with a person who is using and not want to use too…in the course of the seven or eight years that I’ve had this heroin addiction, here along the border, I’ve tried various times to stop using, with my partner who I had until recently. We would both get enrolled [in an inpatient treatment facility], and he would start using again, almost always he would start consuming again first and then later I would, to be with him in the way we had always enjoyed-high.”
	Additional quotes	Partner does not want to get clean Drug-using family members tempt relapse	“[The rehabilitation centers,] well yeah, they work, its just that my partner didn’t want to go, and since he was using drugs and I wasn’t, well, seeing it makes you want to do it to.” “I relapse [once I get clean] because I find it out there, all around, I don’t find motivation. My sister is a heroin addict, and my other sister has her own life away from all this, I don’t know, all alone you can’t do it.