Drugs in Adolescent Worlds : Burnouts to Straights
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0333534700
ISBN-13
9780333534700
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 8th, 1990
Print length
301 Pages
Weight
399 grams
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Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures and drug pushers. In this social worlds analysis, adolescents' own concerns with boredom, depression, social identity, friendship, access to drugs, self-control and folk pharmacology replace the professionals' focus on deviant behaviour.
Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures and drug pushers. This book provides a new perspective, which is sociological rather than epidemiological, understanding patterns of drug taking in the context of ordinary social interaction. In this social worlds analysis, adolescents' own concerns with boredom, depression, social identity, friendship, access to drugs, self-control and folk pharmacology replace the professionals' focus on deviant behaviour.
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