Introduction Significant declines in drinking among young people have been recorded in
many high-income countries over the past 20 years. This analysis explored the role of …

This chapter extends of drug use among youth and emerging adults in North America and
reiterate a call for ethnographies of pharmakon: substances that straddle the medicine–drug …

Studies that have examined young people's drinking behaviour, particularly how they
abstain from alcohol or drink lightly and their motivations, have focused on Western contexts …

Intoxication and its effects are a central feature of alcohol and other drug policy, with
intoxication generally presented as a universal and singular state. Crucially, it is constituted …

Background This study examined how racial/ethnic discrimination may shape alcohol use
behaviors, related problems, and contexts of alcohol use among underage youth (< 21 years …

Scholarship indicates that gender norms influence drinking behaviours, yet the
consequences of this for health professionals and health promotion remains neglected. To …

The chapter draws on the transgressive scripts and Western and non-Western gender
theories to analyse young men's and women's drinking masculinities and femininities. Men …

This introductory chapter provides detailed contextual background information about the
multi-cultural, ethnic, and religious diversities in Nigeria and how these diversities reflect in …

Public leisure spaces such as bars, pubs, and nightclubs are gendered landscapes in
Nigeria. However, scholars are yet to explore the contestations among men and women …

Sébastien Tutenges' new monograph,'intoxication: An ethnography of effervescent
Revelry?'examines intoxication via the concept of collective effervescence. The initial …