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Drugs in Adolescent Worlds

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Drugs in Adolescent Worlds - Glassner, B, and Loughlin, J
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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.

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Drugs in Adolescent Worlds 1990, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780312042073

1987 edition

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