Drugs in Adolescent Worlds: Burnouts to Straights

by Barry Glassner (Author), Barry Glassner (Author), Julia Loughlin (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $53.88

  Drug use by adolescents is usually viewed as the result of personal vulnerability to peer pressures and drug pushers. 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.