NIDA Print and Video Materials Help Parents Warn Young People About Dangers of Drug Use NIDA has launched a number of public education efforts to help parents and concerned adults prese

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use

scholarly journals Representations of Psychoactive Drugs’ Use in Mass Culture and Their Impact on Audiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 6000
Author(s):  
Marek A. Motyka ◽  
Ahmed Al-Imam
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Psychoactive Drugs ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Staying At Home

Drug use has been increasing worldwide over recent decades. Apart from the determinants of drug initiation established in numerous studies, the authors wish to draw attention to other equally important factors, which may contribute to augmenting this phenomenon. The article aims to draw attention to the content of mass culture, especially representations of drug use in mass media, which may influence the liberalization of attitudes towards drugs and their use. The role of mass culture and its impact on the audience is discussed. It presents an overview of drug representations in the content of mass culture, e.g., in film, music, literature, and the occurrence of drug references in everyday products, e.g., food, clothes, and cosmetics. Attention was drawn to liberal attitudes of celebrities and their admissions to drug use, particularly to the impact of the presented positions on the attitudes of the audience, especially young people for whom musicians, actors, and celebrities are regarded as authorities. Indications for further preventive actions were also presented. Attention was drawn to the need to take appropriate action due to the time of the COVID-19 pandemic when many people staying at home (due to lockdown or quarantine) have the possibility of much more frequent contact with mass culture content, which may distort the image of drugs.

scholarly journals Trajectories of drug use among French young people: Prototypical stages of involvement in illicit drug use

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Baggio ◽  
Stanislas Spilka ◽  
Joseph Studer ◽  
Katia Iglesias ◽  
Gerhard Gmel
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use

scholarly journals The Speed User: Social and Psychological Factors in Amphetamine Abuse

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul V. Levine ◽  
David D. Lloyd ◽  
William H. Longdon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Psychological Disturbance ◽  
Amphetamine Abuse ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Chronic Amphetamine

Two hundred and eighteen chronic amphetamine users, ranging in age from thirteen to thirty years were interviewed to ascertain if common factors in backgrounds, life styles, and personalities exist. They were divided into six groups based on locale and sex, and important differences were noted. This essentially middle-class phenomenon is extremely destructive to these young people but it was quite obvious that the socio-psychological disturbance in most of them pre-dated the heavy drug use.

scholarly journals Sports participation and drug use among young people in Mauritius

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Komalsingh Rambaree ◽  
Fariba Mousavi ◽  
Fereshteh Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Sports Participation

Personal Experience

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 906-906
Author(s):  
RICHARD H. SCHWARTZ
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Documented Information ◽  
The Many ◽  
Smoking Marijuana

I am pleased that Milman and Bennett continue to research and publicize the problems that frequent marijuana use by young people can cause. I am grateful to Dr Milman for her ceaseless efforts to educate the medical community about the many dangers to humans of all ages of smoking marijuana. As one who suffered greatly as a result of believing widely publicized but poorly documented information regarding the innocence of using cannabis, I hope that others will also be enlightened by Milman's findings, and by my own, showing the dangers of drug use by adolescents and the pain that such use can cause.

Illicit and injecting drug use among Indigenous young people in urban, regional and remote Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Bryant ◽  
James Ward ◽  
Handan Wand ◽  
Kat Byron ◽  
Andrew Bamblett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Injecting Drug Use

scholarly journals Intersectional Organizing and Educational Justice Movements: Strategies for Cross-Movement Solidarities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren ◽  
Andrew R. King ◽  
Bianca Ortiz-Wythe ◽  
Patricio Belloy ◽  
Jose Zapata Calderon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Educational Justice ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Shared Understandings

This article explores intersectional organizing as a strategy to create solidarity across issues, organizations and communities to build a more united educational justice movement. By intersectional organizing, we mean an organizing strategy that centers the experiences and leadership of people who are affected by multiple forms of oppression. We conducted interviews with ten community organizers who engage parents and young people of color to address the profound inequities in public education. We found that the movement is largely siloed into separate issue-based campaigns, although there are promising examples that connect groups and issues. Organizers believe that intersectional organizing can support greater cross-movement solidarity especially when combined with other processes, including building deep relationships, developing conscious leadership with shared understandings of systemic oppression through political education, and building trust through demonstrated long-term commitments to solidarity in practice. Nevertheless, many warn against an “Oppression Olympics” that creates competition rather than solidarity.

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