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Drugs and Alcohol Today
ISSN: 1745-9265
Online from: 2001
Subject Area: Health and Social Care
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Drug use among rural Irish adolescents - a brief exploratory study
| Title: | Drug use among rural Irish adolescents - a brief exploratory study |
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| Author(s): | Marie Van Hout, (Waterford Institute of Technology) |
| Citation: | Marie Van Hout, (2009) "Drug use among rural Irish adolescents - a brief exploratory study", Drugs and Alcohol Today, Vol. 9 Iss: 1, pp.20 - 26 |
| Keywords: | Adolescents, Drug use, Patterns and perceptions of risk, Rural youth |
| Article type: | General review |
| DOI: | 10.1108/17459265200900005 (Permanent URL) |
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Abstract: | Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a random sample of 220 students from schools and youth training centres within a rural area of the south eastern region of Ireland. The results show that against the backdrop of rising drug use prevalence, the attitudes towards drug use of both adolescent users and abstainers have become more liberal and ‘normalised’. |
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