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Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation
188 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over fifty per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and... Read more
1. Introduction: Getting into ecstasy 2. Types of Ecstasy User and Ecstasy 3. Uses of Ecstasy 4. The Role of Ecstasy 5. Ecstasy-Impressions of Reality
Biography
Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley, Furzana Khan
'...an excellent piece of work...the first research based, book-length study of the most talked-about drug of the 1990s." - Geoffrey Pearson, Goldsmiths College, London
'This book will no doubt become a classic study of the most talked about drug of the 1990s.' - Alyssa Cowell, Streetwise Young People's Project, in Youth and Policy
