From recreational to regular drug use: Qualitative interviews with young clubbers
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From recreational to regular drug use : Qualitative interviews with young clubbers. / Järvinen, Margaretha; Ravn, Signe.
In: Sociology of Health and Illnes, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2011, p. 554-569.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - From recreational to regular drug use
T2 - Qualitative interviews with young clubbers
AU - Järvinen, Margaretha
AU - Ravn, Signe
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article analyses the process of going from recreational use to regular and problematic use of illegal drugs. We present a model containing six career contingencies relevant for young people’s progress from recreational to regular drug use: the closing of social networks, changes in forms of parties, intoxication becoming a goal in itself, easier access to drugs, learning to recognise alternative effects of drugs and experiences of loss of control. The analysis shows that these dimensions are at play not only when young people develop a regular drug use pattern but also when they attempt to extricate themselves from this pattern. Hence, when regular drug users talk about their future, it is not a future characterised by total abstinence from illegal drugs but a future where they have rolled back their drug use career to the recreational drug use pattern they started out with. Empirically, the article is based on qualitative interviews with young drug users contacted at nightclubs in Denmark
AB - This article analyses the process of going from recreational use to regular and problematic use of illegal drugs. We present a model containing six career contingencies relevant for young people’s progress from recreational to regular drug use: the closing of social networks, changes in forms of parties, intoxication becoming a goal in itself, easier access to drugs, learning to recognise alternative effects of drugs and experiences of loss of control. The analysis shows that these dimensions are at play not only when young people develop a regular drug use pattern but also when they attempt to extricate themselves from this pattern. Hence, when regular drug users talk about their future, it is not a future characterised by total abstinence from illegal drugs but a future where they have rolled back their drug use career to the recreational drug use pattern they started out with. Empirically, the article is based on qualitative interviews with young drug users contacted at nightclubs in Denmark
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01303.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01303.x
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 21226733
VL - 33
SP - 554
EP - 569
JO - Sociology of Health and Illness
JF - Sociology of Health and Illness
SN - 0141-9889
IS - 4
ER -
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