On the edge: Drugs and the consumption of risk in late modernity

Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-Taking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 227-245

  Reith, Gerda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203005293     Document Type: Chapter

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