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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785719603321

Autore

Williams Lisa <1970 Oct. 19-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25527-3

1-283-70979-1

0-203-10580-X

1-136-25528-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in ethnography ; ; 10

Disciplina

616.8600835

Soggetti

Youth - Drug use

Drug abuse

Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 decision making within the context of their everyday lives.Changing lives, changing drug journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance. The drug journeys