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dc.contributor.authorProf. CHEUNG Yuet-Wahen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-23T03:29:00Z-
dc.date.available2017-01-23T03:29:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationSubstance Use & Misuse, 2015, vol. 50 (8-9), pp. 1044-1050.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1532-2491-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/3848-
dc.description.abstractThis paper traces how social, economic, and cultural changes in Hong Kong in the past five decades might have affected the pattern of illicit drug use among young people in Hong Kong. The prevalence of illicit drug use by young people had been very low before the 1990s, and like adult users, young users mostly used heroin. This pattern of drug use started to change in the late 1990s, when there was a sudden upsurge of drug use among young people, and psychoactive drugs such as ketamine quickly replaced heroin as the most popular drugs among them. An attempt is made to explain the new pattern of young people's drug use with respect to the changes of the social, economic and cultural conditions of Hong Kong since the 1960s, making use of Beck's risk society perspective and Parker's concept of normalization of recreational drug use. The identification of macro social flaws points to the need to address societal factors impeding successful interventions, which will involve reducing the blockage of upward mobility for young people, and providing them with the latest scientific knowledge of the physical and mental damages of ketamine and other psychoactive drugs for their better understanding of the risk of drug use.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSubstance Use & Misuseen_US
dc.subjectNormalization ofrecreational drug useen_US
dc.subjectPsychoactive drug useen_US
dc.subjectKetamineen_US
dc.titleMacro social flaws and interventions's unfinished business: A personal note on young people's drug use in Hong Kongen_US
dc.typePeer Reviewed Journal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3109/10826084.2015.1012843-
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crisitem.author.deptDepartment of Sociology-
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