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Applied social science has been obsessed with trends and start asking young people what they
documenting adolescent drug use in terms of comprehend of the society we now live in, then
prevalence and incidence for some 20 years now. we might be in for some very interesting new
What is urgently needed for the next Millennium social science reading and hopefully might get
is a new social science account of the process of some new ideas for health promotion policies. This
adolescence in modern (or is it post-modern?) book is an important account of a certain style of
society given the social stresses and uncertainties research which has dominated one aspect of drugs
that the authors acknowledge as so influential on policy, but it must mark the end of an era and
children. What does it mean to be a young adult open the door to a new synthesis of adolescent
in a world without a clear moral consensus, where drug use. What is the real meaning of adolescent
political ambivalence is endemic, where people drug use? This is a question for social scientists
have high psychological, educational and material to address in the next Millennium.
expectations, but face the experience of fragmented Philip Haynes
families and communities? If social scientists Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
stopped focusing on a descriptive analysis of drug University of Brighton
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