Changing lives, changing drug journeys : drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

Changing lives, changing drug journeys drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their deci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Williams, Lisa, 1970 Oct. 19-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge 2013.
Colección:Routledge advances in ethnography ; 10
Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Materias:
Youth > Drug use > Longitudinal studies.
Drug abuse > Longitudinal studies.
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence > Longitudinal studies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798428506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Understanding and researching drug taking: lessons from the past
  • Theorizing decisions about drug taking
  • A balancing act? Weighing up the costs and benefits to health and well-being
  • The meaning of pleasure and risk in a cultural context
  • The journey to adulthood
  • At the crossroads: life journeys and drug journeys
  • Drug taking and risk assessment reconsidered.

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