Summary
Contents
How do we understand drug use? How are drugs related to our social worlds? How should drug use be understood, approached and dealt with? Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. Powerful and engaging, this book discusses main questions within the field of psychoactive drugs research, such as: Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people's social positions influence their individual involvement in drug use? This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as students and drug service practitioners in social work, social policy and nursing.
Raves and Circuit Parties
Raves and Circuit Parties
Raves were venues associated with particular music styles, dance and youth culture. The term is used less frequently in contemporary culture, compared to its usage during the 1980s and 1990s. Circuit parties are commercialised dance music events that are attended largely by gay males.
A unique music and dance scene emerged on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza in the mid-1980s. According to folklore, a small group of DJs from England who were visiting the island in 1987 consumed ecstasy during a night out in a local club. The effects of ecstasy and the DJ's unique music encouraged the group to recreate the scene in London. Referred to as acid house, the music was a collective sound of various other ...
