Drinking with design: young drinkers as psychoactive consumers
Drinking with design: young drinkers as psychoactive consumers
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DOI：
10.1080/713660094
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发表时间：
2000-02-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Carnwath, T
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作者：
Brain, K;Parker, H;Carnwath, T
尽管十年来采取了从预防/教育到执法、管制和“零容忍”等重大政治和政策举措，但1990年代的青年中仍有相当一部分人饮酒、吸烟和/或使用更多的非法药物。这些青少年“毒品”使用的行为变化已被有效量化，但没有得到很好的解释或理解。这篇论文提供了一种“欣赏”的分析，通过这种分析，年轻人的合法/非法药物使用被定义为他们认为的消费而不是“滥用”。它是基于定量（对721名13-16岁青少年的保密自我报告问卷）和定性方法（对三个街头饮酒网络的广泛观察实地调查和对55名年轻饮酒者的半结构化访谈）在英格兰西北部一个地区的结合。它关注的是年轻人对他们喝什么、在哪里喝、为什么喝的描述，以及饮料行业营销强烈、口感顺滑、形象丰富的设计师饮料（包括酒精饮料）的影响。这项研究和其他研究一致发现，最严重的年轻饮酒者也很可能使用现成的非法药物和烟草作为精神活动的一部分。在这项研究中，年轻人故意从这些具有精神活性的曲目中寻求一种“兴奋”（陶醉），他们将其视为一种消费决定。随着这种明显的享乐主义/功能性消费的轮廓现在被发现远远超出了一小部分犯罪或受损的青少年核心，因此在其他传统的，顺从的青年中，有人认为政策举措和理论解释应该调整到“后现代性”，以便这样的消费可以更好地社会管理。
A significant minority of 1990's youth are drinking more alcohol, smoking move tobacco and/or using more illicit drugs despite a decade of major political and policy initiatives ranging from prevention/education to enforcement, regulation and 'zero tolerance'. These behavioural changes in youthful 'drug' use have been effectively quantified but not well explained or understood. This paper offers an 'appreciative' analysis whereby young people's licit/illicit drug use is framed as they perceive it-as consumption rather than 'abuse'. It is based on a combination of quantitative (confidential self-report questionnaire to 721 13-16-year-olds) and qualitative methods (extensive observational fieldwork with three street drinking networks and 55 semi-structured interviews with young drinkers) in one region of north-west England. It focuses on the accounts of young people as to what, where and why they drink and the impact of the drink industry's marketing of strong, smooth-tasting, image-laden designer drinks, including alcopops. This study, in line with others, found that the heaviest young drinkers were also very likely to use readily available illicit drugs and tobacco as part of a psyche-active repertoire. Young people in this study purposely sought a 'buzz' (intoxication) from these psyco-active repertoires which they framed as a consumption decision. With this profile of apparent hedonistic/functional consumption now being found far beyond a small delinquent or damaged core of adolescents and thus in otherwise conventional, conforming youth, it is argued that policy initiatives as well as theoretical explanations should adjust to post-modernity' so that such consumption can be better socially managed.