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Drugs in Adolescent Worlds

Burnouts to Straights

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Barry Glassner

    1. Syracuse University, New York, USA

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  2. Julia Loughlin

    1. Syracuse University, New York, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Competing Explanations: Epidemiology, Politics, Social Worlds

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Methodology for Listening

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 16-40

  4. Why do Adolescents Use Drugs?

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 41-64

  5. How Adolescents Use Drugs

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 65-91

  6. Distributing and Understanding Drugs

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 92-123

  7. Why Adolescents Avoid Drugs: Light Users and Non-Users

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 124-145

  8. Peer Pressure

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 146-180

  9. Families

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 181-205

  10. The Future

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 206-234

  11. Seeing Defective Individuals

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 235-257

  12. Seeing Social Worlds

    • Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin
    Pages 258-278

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 279-301
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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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  • Syracuse University, New York, USA

    Barry Glassner, Julia Loughlin

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