'Scripting' risk: Young people and the construction of drug journeys

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 349-368

  Mayock, Paula ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Drug transitions; Ethnography; Individualism; Risk; Youth and drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844610323     PISSN: 09687637     EISSN: 14653370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687630500183020     Document Type: Review

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