Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys: Drug Taking Decisions from Adolescence to Adulthood

ISBN-13: 9780415623513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 198 str.

Lisa Williams

Opis

This text 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.

Spis treści

1. Understanding and researching drug taking: lessons from the past  2. Theorizing decisions about drug taking  3. A balancing act? Weighing up the costs and benefits to health and well-being  4. The meaning of pleasure and risk in a cultural context  5. The journey to adulthood  6. At the crossroads: life journeys and drug journeys  7. Drug taking and risk assessment reconsidered

O autorze

Lisa Williams is Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, in the School of Law, University of Manchester. For over a decade, she has undertaken research of both recreational and dependent forms of drug taking. Her research has focused upon recreational drug journeys during the life course exploring onset, stability, change and desistance.