Booze, drugs, and pop music: Trends in substance portrayals in the Billboard top 100-1968-2008

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-129

  Christenson, Peter ^a   Roberts, Donald F ^b   Bjork, Nicholas ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Billboard; Drug portrayal; Music; Pop songs; Substance use

Indexed keywords

STREET DRUG;

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BIBLIOMETRICS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; MUSIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BIBLIOMETRICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MUSIC; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84855475134     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2012.637433     Document Type: Article

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