This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were
recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described …

This book provides a full account of the North West Longitudinal Study of adolescent drug
use. This quantitative and qualitative research was the largest single survey of adolescent …

The results of the second stage of an ongoing longitudinal survey of alcohol consumption
amongst over 750 young people in the North West of England are reported. This paper …

This paper gives an overview of some of the most recent research surrounding the use of
prohibited or illicit drugs by young people in Britain. Current research on the prevalence of …

Against the backdrop of a long-standing British 'binge and brawl'pattern of alcohol-based
weekend leisure and concomitant recurrent anxieties in the media surrounding youth and …

A significant minority of 1990s youth are drinking more alcohol, smoking more tobacco
and/or using more illicit drugs despite a decade of major political and policy initiatives …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent changes in young
people's consumption of alcohol in Britain before then charting emerging academic …

This article contrasts two understandings of intoxication. The first, found in public health
discourse, constructs intoxication as a harm produced by risky alcohol consumption and …

This article discusses the development of the normalization thesis in respect of monitoring
sustained increases in young Britons' consumption of illicit drugs and alcohol over the past …

Since it began in the mid-1990s, the debate surrounding the normalisation of adolescent
recreational drug use has attracted considerable attention and has tended to polarise …