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Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys - Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood (Paperback)
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Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys - Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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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 and the decision making process which underpins
them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk
and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical
framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision
making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the
pleasures and risks that interviewees perceive when making
decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which their
drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social
relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain
the decision making process are also explored. Qualitative
longitudinal research of this kind is uncommon yet it provides an
invaluable insight into the decision making process of individuals
during the life course. The book will, therefore, be of interest to
researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including
qualitative research methods as well as sociology, criminology,
cultural and health studies. It will also be an important resource
for professionals working in health promotion, drugs education,
harm reduction and treatment.
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