Exploring the micro-politics of normalisation: Narratives of pleasure, self-control and desire in a sample of young Australian 'party drug' users

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 557-571

  Pennay, Amy ^a   Moore, David ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; ethnography; Normalisation; party drugs; pleasure; self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956204421     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066350903308415     Document Type: Article

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