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Sex, Drugs and Young People: International Perspectives
Contributor(s): Aggleton, Peter (Editor), Ball, Andrew (Editor), Mane, Purnima (Editor)
ISBN: 0415328780     ISBN-13: 9780415328784
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $54.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2005
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Annotation: All over the world, young people have been the focus of recurrent moral panic concerning illicit drug and substance use. While there is global concern about teenage pregnancy and rising rates of sexually transmitted infection and HIV/AIDS, dominant portrayals suggest that young people - particularly 'adolescents' - are willful hedonists intent on self-destruction.
"Sex, Drugs and Young People "calls into question the mainstream assumptions about adolescence and youth that underlie many of our understandings in relation to sexual practices and drug use among teenagers and young adults. The book provides a more complex view of the transition to adulthood as not merely biologically driven, but rather socially and culturally organized.
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national contributions, the book reveals similarities and differences that mark both sexuality and drug use among young people in different social and cultural settings. In doing so, it allows the reader to build up a clearer understanding of the challenges that must be faced in fields such as public health and education if we are to develop programmes that really serve the needs of young people.
"Sex, Drugs and Young People" will be of interest to many professionals working with young people and is suitable for a wide range of multidisciplinary courses covering areas such as human sexuality, sex education, public health and social work.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality)
- Medical | Nursing - General
- Medical | Aids & Hiv
Dewey: 362.708
LCCN: 2005015912
Series: Sexuality, Culture and Health
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 7.96" W x 9.04" (0.81 lbs) 240 pages
 
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Sexual practices and drug use among the young are examined in this book, calling into question mainstream assumptions about 'adolescence'.
Bringing together a range of cross-cultural and cross-national contributions, the book reveals both similarities and important differences that mark sexuality and drug use among young in different social and cultural settings. In doing so, it allows the reader to build up a clearer understanding of the challenges that must be faced in public health and education if we are to develop programs and interventions that really serve the needs of young people.

The book will be of interest to professionals working with young people and is suitable for a wide range of multidisciplinary courses covering areas such as human sexuality, sex education, public health and social work.