Psychoactive Drug Abuse in Hong Kong
Life Satisfaction and Drug Use
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Beschreibung
This book studies young people’s use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong. Specifically, it focuses on how life satisfaction may affect drug use among a sample of psychoactive drug users in Hong Kong. The book addresses the dearth of research on the role of young people’s life satisfaction in their drug abuse and engagement in other risk behaviors in Hong Kong. It also examines how changes in the drug scene from heroin addiction to psychoactive party drug use since the late 1990s has necessitated a deeper exploration of the subculture of young people, which shapes their attitudes and behaviors regarding how they structure their lives and how they perceive the risks of drug use, in the context of the global trend of normalization of recreational drug use.
Readers will benefit from the results of a rigorous analysis of a unique set of longitudinal data that reveals the factors influencing drug use among young psychoactive drug users, academic implications of the findings for social science theory and research on young people’s drug use, and practical implications of the findings for prevention and intervention services for young people in Hong Kong and other Asian societies.
Presents the first longitudinal study of psychoactive drug abuse in young people in Hong Kong
Fills a research gap by examining the role of young people’s life satisfaction in their psychoactive drug abuse and treatment in Hong Kong
Examines the change in the drug scene from heroin addiction to psychoactive party drug use since the late 1990s in Hong Kong
Engages in a deeper exploration of the drug subculture of young people in Hong Kong, which shapes their attitudes and behaviors regarding psychoactive drug use
Presents the first longitudinal study of psychoactive drug abuse in young people in Hong Kong Fills a research gap by examining the role of young people’s life satisfaction in their psychoactive drug abuse and treatment in Hong Kong Examines the change in the drug scene from heroin addiction to psychoactive party drug use since the late 1990s in Hong Kong Engages in a deeper exploration of the drug subculture of young people in Hong Kong, which shapes their attitudes and behaviors regarding psychoactive drug use
Autor*in
Yuet Wah Cheung
Themen in »Psychoactive Drug Abuse in Hong Kong«
Adolescent drug users in Hong Kong Drug abuse in Hong Kong Drug scene in Hong Kong Life satisfaction and drug use in Hong Kong Life satisfaction in Hong Kong Psychoactive drug abusers in Hong Kong Psychoactive drug use in Hong Kong Subculture of young people in Hong Kong Young drug users in Hong Kong childhood studies