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This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their decision making within the context of their everyday lives.

Changing lives, changing drug journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance. The drug journeys and the decision making process which underpins them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the pleasures and risks that interviewees perceive when making decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which their drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain the decision making process are also explored.

Qualitative longitudinal research of this kind is uncommon yet it provides an invaluable insight into the decision making process of individuals during the life course. The book will, therefore, be of interest to researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including qualitative research methods as well as sociology, criminology, cultural and health studies. It will also be an important resource for professionals working in health promotion, drugs education, harm reduction and treatment.

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Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys

Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance. The drug journeys and the decision making process which underpins them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the pleasures and risks perceived when making decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain the decision making process are also explored.

Lisa Williams is Lecturer in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester, UK. For over a decade, she has undertaken research of both recreational and dependent forms of drug taking. Her research has focused upon recreational drug journeys during the life course, exploring onset, stability, change and desistance.

Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Edited by Dick Hobbs, University of Essex, and Geoffrey Pearson,
Goldsmiths College, University of London

Ethnography is a celebrated, if contested, research methodology that offers unprecedented access to peoples intimate lives, their often hidden social worlds and the meanings they attach to these. The intensity of ethnographic fieldwork often makes considerable personal and emotional demands on the researcher, while the final product is a vivid human document with personal resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other social science methodology. This series aims to highlight the best, most innovative ethnographic work available from both new and established scholars.

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10. Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys
Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood
Lisa Williams

Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys

Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

Lisa Williams

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2013 Lisa Williams

The right of the Lisa Williams to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Williams, Lisa, 1970 Oct. 19
Changing lives, changing drug journeys : drug taking decisions from
adolescence to adulthood / Lisa Williams.

p. cm. (Routledge advances in ethnography)
1. YouthDrug useLongitudinal studies. 2. Drug abuseLongitudinal

studies. 3. Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescenceLongitudinal studies. I.
Title.

HV5824.Y68W554 2012
616.8600835dc23

2012003343

ISBN: 978-1-84392-894-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-11062-1 (ebk)

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Acknowledgements

The project on which this book is based has been ongoing since 1991 and there are, therefore, many people who have contributed to it in various ways. I do my best to acknowledge the most important here.

I wish firstly to express my thanks to all the interviewees who took part in this research. They so willingly gave their time to me and openly discussed their lives. It was a pleasure to meet and interview them all. I am also grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council for funding my PhD research and earlier stages of the project, which allowed the project to continue to explore drug taking in young adulthood.

Special thanks are also due to some academics who supported and encouraged me during my PhD and in the writing of this book. Firstly, to my friend and PhD supervisor Judith Aldridge, who offered advice throughout the course of my PhD and always provided positive encouragement during the many highs and lows experienced in producing it. Her knowledge and experience of the North West England Longitudinal Study (NWELS) and ideas on how it could be developed were invaluable. Secondly, thanks also to Toby Seddon who became my supervisor during the final year of my PhD and has since continued to encourage and support me in producing this book. I am grateful for his constructive and positive comments on my draft manuscript. I am also indebted to some former colleagues who initiated and worked on earlier stages of the NWELS: Fiona Measham and Howard Parker.

I wish also to express my gratitude to my friends and family. Thanks, of course, to my Mum, Dad and sister, Tracey, for their continual encouragement, support and love. Thanks particularly to my Mum for travelling up North to look after my daughter in the final stages of writing this book. My friends have been ever supportive too, continually asking how my work was progressing. Special thanks are due to Susan Batchelor, Nic Beck, Bob Coates, Ange McGibbon and Tamara McNeill. Ange and Tamara deserve a special mention for providing childcare so that I could continue to write this book. Finally, and by no means the least, very special thanks are due to my partner Rob Ralphs and my children Ruby and Rafferty. Rob has been a constant, calming and encouraging support throughout and also provided valuable comments on my draft manuscript. Without him, his enduring love, willingness to put my work before his own and readiness to take on the majority of childcare during the writing of this book, it is unlikely this work would have reached completion. Thanks to Ruby for putting up with not spending as much time with me as I would have liked. And finally, thanks to Rafferty who kindly waited until I had just completed this manuscript before entering this world.

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