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 …

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 …

Here, then, is popular television drama offering us a picture of normalised poly-drug use as
routine, everyday life. And, of course, this is hardly an isolated example of the representation …

BACKGROUND: Recent debates on 'binge drinking'in the UK have represented the activities
of young drinkers in urban areas as a particular source of concern, as constituting a threat to …

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 paper reflects on the relationship between harm reduction, demand reduction, and
supply reduction (collectively, harm minimisation) in relation to the individual, socio …

Alcohol consumption is frequently described as a contemporary, worsening and peculiarly
British social problem that requires radical remedial regulation. Informed by historical …

Problematic alcohol consumption is a major public health, health education and health
promotion issue in Australia and internationally. In an effort to better understand young …

The contemporary night‐time economy has transformed British town centres into liminal
spaces where transgression does not subvert normative space, but establishes public …

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 …