Ruane, Deirdre
(1998)
Adolescent Involvement
in Alcohol and Drug Use.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
Macken defines a drug in scientific terms "as any substance
other than food which by its chemical nature affects the structure or function of
a living organism". (Macken 1975:7). There are a wide range of synthetic and
organic materials that can be labelled drugs. Such materials would include
alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, the opiates
and also the hundreds of medicines to be found in chemist shops. Our society is
a drug taking society, that is a pill for every ill. There are drugs for sleeping,
headaches, stomach ailments, almost everything really. When young children
see drugs being so openly used there is no wonder, they will experiment with
more illicit drugs. Although illicit drugs are frowned upon, a blind eye may be
turned on alcohol or the usage of prescribed drugs. Alcohol in fact is a
substance which is used greatly among adolescents and it may lead to the use
of more illicit drugs.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
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| Keywords: |
Adolescent Involvement;
Alcohol; Drug Use; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Item ID: |
5101 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Jul 2014 09:19 |
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