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E-book Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

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ocial and behavioral scientists have tended to focus on young people’suse of (both legal and illegal) psychoactive and addictive substances,largely ignoring their use of other kinds of chemicals. There are fourbroad trends in this body of research: one set of studies defines substanceuse as risky behavior, something that needs to be prevented by under-standing the determinants of use. These studies usually have a narrowfocus on particular drugs, such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, heroin,and ecstasy; they present statistics on the use of these “problem drugs”and seek to identify associated risk factors. These surveys show thatfactors such as education, poverty, violence, and peer pressure are associ-ated with drug use (for example, Assanangkornchai et al.2007; Kokkeviet al.2007; Hibell et al.2009; Legleye et al.2011). For example, a studyof cannabis experimentation among French teenagers found that one outof five 8th to 10th graders had tried cannabis (Jovic et al.2014). Theresearchers report that teenagers of low socioeconomic status who wereliving with both parents, feeling well monitored, and had good commu-nication with their mothers were less likely to experiment with cannabisthan those who did not like school and felt undervalued by teachers. Inthe Netherlands, a study found that parents had little influence on youngadults’ cannabis use, which was instead associated with the actions oftheir peers and partners (Liebregts et al.2013).A second group of studies maintains that drug use is often a survivalstrategy for young people growing up in risky environments and underconditions of structural violence (Bourgois1998; Rhodes2002;Pilk-ington2007;Singer2008). For example, in urban poor communitiesin Makassar, Indonesia, young men consume locally brewed spirits,along with psychoactive prescription drugs, cannabis, and heroin toproject “rewa”—masculine bravery. As one informant put it: “To surviveand to be respected, you need to be rewa. Indeed, you’re not a reallorong guy if you don’t put on a brave face against dangers” (Nasirand Rosenthal2009, p. 240). Lasco examines how a group of youngmen, working stand-by as tambays and hoping to pick up odd jobs in a harbor in the Philippines, use methamphetamine, locally known asshabu, for strength, confidence, and disinhibition. “We are not educatedand we have nothing. Where will we gets the confidence to talk to others,if not from shabu?” they explain (Lasco2014, p. 85). To help themmanage irregular working hours, they use methamphetamines to stayawake, and cannabis and alcohol to fall asleep.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 HAR c

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Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

335 hlm

Bahasa

English

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9783030570811

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301

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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