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2004
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通讯作者:
Tse Siu Keung
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作者:
Lam Chiu Wan;Kam Weng;Wong On On;Annie;Tse Siu Keung
1. Rave culture first appeared in western countries in the 1980s. It is a mixture of dance, music, drugs, youth culture, and deviance culture. The culture came to Hong Kong in the late 1990s. There has been an increase in the popularity of rave parties and discos in the past decade. However, this study found that the rave culture is transforming quickly in recent years. Large-scale rave parties are disappearing and changing into a variety of less structural and small-scale underground settings. The focus of this study is placed on the substances abuse behavior among young people in the context of the Underground Rave Culture (URC). 2. Definition: The Underground Rave Culture (URC) basically refers to those underground activities that, as a part of the rave culture, can also be regarded as a combination of youth culture, deviance culture, drug culture, dance culture, and music culture. Participants in URC place more emphasis on communicating with friends and regard taking drugs as a ritual, a form of recreation, and as an enhancer of activities (e.g. dancing). Drug consumption is often a means to an end rather than an end itself. 3. At first, URC takes the form of small-scale discos or rave parties in different local communities and has now become more widely spread. It has the effect of giving participants greater access to drugs, and expanding their networks to form groups in which drugs are consumed. URC has been changing rapidly and developed into different forms of activities. The activities that go on within URC