Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights (1st ed. 1987)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1987

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781349207435
Related ISBNs:
9780333534700
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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