Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation

ISBN-13: 9780415270410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 188 str.

Richard Hammersley; R. Hammersley;Ditton Jason

Opis

Drug users are no longer a mad, bad or immoral minority. Using drugs is normal for the chemical generation, and the drug that defines them is ecstacy. This book about ecstasy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. The effects of the manufacture, distribution and use of ecstasy are now being felt across much of the globe. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over 50 per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and normal aspiration. Through their own words we hear how they first started using ecstasy, how they use it in different ways, why clubbing and raving are so important, how good sex is on ecstasy, how they chill out, how they come down, what problems they encountered and why they quit. And what happened to these normal people when they used ecstasy? Nothing. Yet. This path-breaking book ends by trying to answer the questions on the lips of every member of the chemical generation: what are the long-term effects of ecstasy?

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Getting into ecstasy 2. Types of Ecstasy User and Ecstasy 3. Uses of Ecstasy 4. The Role of Ecstasy 5. Ecstasy-Impressions of Reality

O autorze

Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley, Furzana Khan