Coming 'down here': Young people's reflections on becoming entrenched in a local drug scene
Coming 'down here': Young people's reflections on becoming entrenched in a local drug scene
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.07.024
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发表时间：
2009-10-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Kerr, Thomas
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作者：
Fast, Danya;Small, Will;Kerr, Thomas
最近的研究突出表明，社会结构进程和物质环境的运作方式将年轻吸毒者推向风险。我们进行了这项研究，以探讨如何年轻人谁是目前街头根深蒂固的特点，并了解他们的启动到当地的毒品现场在市中心温哥华，加拿大。半结构化的定性访谈进行了38个人招募从一个队列的年轻吸毒者被称为在风险青年研究（阿里斯）。与会者的叙述反映了青年人的一种理解，即他们同时被拉着和推着走向当地的舞台。推动因素被理解为促使年轻人进入这一环境的环境，在某些情况下是因为他们从小就接近这一环境，在另一些情况下是因为在其他地方经历了不利的情况，需要找到一个既负担得起又安全的新住所。在讲述青年如何被推向当地的同时，还讲述了一些故事，强调高度自治和最初吸引他们来到当地的因素，包括渴望刺激、独立和归属感。一旦年轻人更永久地在温哥华市中心，参与者确定了几个因素，加速他们在这个地方的根深蒂固，包括越来越多的“问题”的药物使用，加强需要创造收入，长期无家可归的经验，和不稳定的社会关系。我们的研究结果强调，需要早期干预与青年，在他们开始进入社交网络和过程，迅速推动年轻人在这些背景下的风险。一旦开始，安全和风险之间的界限很快变得难以驾驭，年轻人变得非常容易受到许多伤害。(c)2009爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Recent research has highlighted the ways in which social structural processes and physical environments operate to push young drug users towards risk. We undertook this study in order to explore how young people who were currently street-entrenched characterized and understood their initiation into the local drug scene in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with 38 individuals recruited from a cohort of young drug users known as the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS). Participant narratives reflected an understanding among young people that they are simultaneously pulled and pushed towards the local scene. Push factors were understood as circumstances that propelled young people towards this setting, in some cases because of proximity to it from a very early age, and in other cases because of adverse situations experienced elsewhere and the need to find a new place to live that was both affordable and safe. Interwoven with accounts of how youth were pushed towards the local scene were stories that emphasized a high degree of autonomy and the factors that initially attracted them to this scene, including a desire for excitement, independence and belonging. Once young people were more permanently based in downtown Vancouver, participants identified several factors that accelerated their entrenchment in this locale, including increasingly 'problematic' drug use, an intensified need to generate income, experiences of chronic homelessness, and unstable social relationships. Our findings stress the need for early intervention with youth, before they are initiated into the social networks and processes that rapidly propel young people towards risk within these contexts. Once initiation has occurred, the boundary between safety and risk quickly becomes difficult to navigate, and young people become highly vulnerable to numerous harms. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.