| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Illegal Leisure Revisited: Changing patterns of alcohol and drug use in adolescents and young adults; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Tables and Figures; Introduction; 1. History lessons: drug use trends amongst young Britons 1980-2010; Introduction; The illicit drugs use 'peak' of the 1990s; Post 2000 drug use trends; A switch to alcohol use; Political and policy responses to evolving drug and alcohol consumption; 2. The North West Longitudinal Study; Overview; Introduction; Appropriate resources; 'Experiencing' the research process; Sampling; Survey procedures |
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The questionnaireIn-depth interviews; Validity and reliability; Summary; Evolving methods and techniques (1999-2008); 3. Alcohol: 'Our favourite drug'; Overview; Introduction; Patterns, past and present; The North-West Study: Alcohol through adolescence; Smoking; Conclusion; 1999 to 2005 Alcohol -- Still our favourite drug; 4. Patterns: An overview of drug offers, trying, use and drugs experiences across adolescence; Overview; Introduction; Drug offers and availability; Ever tried a drug; Ever tried, by specific drug; First-time trying, by drug; Recency of drug trying and drug use |
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The impact of gender, social class and raceExperiences of drug trying; Conclusion; Patterns: An update from 18 to 27 years of age; 5. Pathways: Drug abstainers, former triers, current users and those in transition; Overview; The pathways analysis; Drug status groups; The making of drug pathways; Drugs pathways into young adulthood; Summary; Pathways: an update from 18 to 27 years; The pathways analysis; Drug status groups; The making of drug pathways; Summary; 6. Journeys: Becoming users of drugs; Overview; Introduction; Getting drugs; Trying drugs; The cost-benefit assessment; Conclusion |
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Journeys: update 18 to 27 years of ageSummary; 7. Towards the normalisation of recreational drug use; Overview; Introduction; The normalisation of recreational drug use; Rethinking the war on drugs; Illegal Leisure Revisited: the runaway train of normalisation; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive 'recreational' drug use. This new edition revisits these original chapters, providing commentaries around them to discuss current implications of the original publication, plus documenting and discussing the group at twenty-two and twenty-seven years of age. Illegal Leisure Revisited positions the journeys of these twent |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Young adults -- Drug use -- Great Britain -- Longitudinal studies
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Drug abuse -- Great Britain -- Longitudinal studies
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Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Longitudinal studies
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Drug abuse
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Young adults -- Drug use
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Longitudinal studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Measham, Fiona
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Williams, Lisa
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| ISBN |
9781136822513 |
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1136822518 |
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9780203830468 |
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0203830466 |
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