Recreational drug use and the club scene

TY - CHAP

T1 - Recreational drug use and the club scene

AU - Järvinen, Margaretha

PY - 2013/1/1

Y1 - 2013/1/1

N2 - Introduction In the late 1980s and early 1990s, recreational use of illegal drugs (cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamine, LSD, cocaine etc.) started to increase dramatically in many Western countries and is now regarded as an integrated part of night life in modern societies. Recreational drug use may be dened as occasional and limited use of drugs in specic settings, and as controlled and predictable drug intake without severe physical, mental or social consequences (Measham et al., 2000; Parker, 2005).

AB - Introduction In the late 1980s and early 1990s, recreational use of illegal drugs (cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamine, LSD, cocaine etc.) started to increase dramatically in many Western countries and is now regarded as an integrated part of night life in modern societies. Recreational drug use may be dened as occasional and limited use of drugs in specic settings, and as controlled and predictable drug intake without severe physical, mental or social consequences (Measham et al., 2000; Parker, 2005).

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-415-69717-0

SP - 347

EP - 357

BT - Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

A2 - Blackshaw, Tony

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -