Chilling Out: The Cultural Politics of Substance Consumption, Youth and Drug PolicyThis book critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies. For the first time in this field, it combines a wide-ranging exploration of the global political and historical context with a detailed focus on youth culture, on the basis that young people are the primary target of drug prevention policies. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 01 Drug prohibition and the assassin of youth | 7 |
Chapter 02 Pleasure doomed | 28 |
Chapter 03 Drugs as cultural commodities | 52 |
Chapter 04 Youth subcultural theory | 104 |
Chapter 05 Drug normalization | 127 |
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