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

• Autore: Williams Lisa <1970 Oct. 19-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8600835
• Soggetto topico: Youth - Drug use; Drug abuse; Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing lives, changing drug journeys
• ISBN: 1-283-70979-1; 0-203-10580-X; 1-136-25528-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462496203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Ethnography