This article presents an individualized HIV prevention approach for drug
abusers which is theoretically grounded (Prochaska& DiClemente, 1986),
incorporates a commonly used HIV intervention for drug abusers (Wechsberg
et al., 1997), and includes Thought Mapping as a way of relating
thoughts, feelings, and expectations, to behaviors and actions. Thought
Mapping is diagramming or mapping problems in a way to link thoughts
to specific behavioral consequences. The intervention was developed using
focus groups and initially piloted with drug abusers not in treatment. The
intervention targets drug abuse and unhealthy or high-risk sexual behaviors,
which are identified by those who participate in the intervention.