‘The area I’m from is very rough’: Drug users’ views on the role of social and economic factors in their experiences of drug-related harm

O'Mahony, Shane

doi:10.1080/15332640.2023.2177919

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“…Lofty thresholds of cultural communal anxiety in the social space would induce narcotic utilization by juveniles [24], either rightly or discursively. Whether nuisances integrate right mainsprings for narcotic utilization amongst juveniles or bring about the rights mainsprings in the microstructure to come into social role and sustain on each other, they should not be perceived as being dissimilar to vistas in the macrostructure.…”

Section: Macro-structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Sociological Bout on the ‘Kushlization’ of Sierra Leonean Juveniles: A Freetown Clogging Communal Health Apocalypse

Bangura

2024

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Sierra Leone’s illegal narcotic utilization enigma has augmented considerably amidst the ultimate dual decades [1]. Of specific concern has been the rising drift in narcotic or drug utilization among Sierra Leonean adolescents and juveniles [2]. Frequently utilized narcotics in Sierra Leone include Kush or K2, Marijuana, Tramadol, and to familiar stretch Cocaine. In this sociological inquiry, the researcher discusses worsen narcotic utilization amidst the ultimate dual decades in Sierra Leone, and how it is a grave imminent community health apocalypse. This sociological inquiry intents to scan the rudimentary incentives of the juveniles narcotic abusers and their rapport with their families and to pinpoint dilemmas and necessitates that juvenile narcotic abusers are encountering. The essential insistence is to diagnose the crux mainsprings of narcotic abuse and to entrust the family functional function for neutralization of narcotic abuse in the cultural community. The objective of this sociological inquiry is to diagnose the central root of narcotic abuse, situating attention into ‘Kush’ as the principal narcotic that is being abused amongst adolescents and juveniles addicts. The inquiry methodology entailed a review of books, direct social dialogues, focus cohort social dialogues and internet sites. A random selection was done to choose fourteen addicts who live in the streets of Freetown for questioning. A critical review of narcotic utilization mitigation programs right through the nation is required to secure that they are customized to adolescents and juveniles, a springing critical population for whom these benevolences are indispensable. Invigorating social safety groundwork, narcotic regulative schemes and statute implementation is desperately enforced to resist this imminent communal health apocalypse. The inquiry summarized that to accomplish this, a multi-stakeholder crucial path for cultural community consciousness, jurisdictive transformations to secure punitive measures for suppliers and increased juvenile offenders social contingencies are imperative.

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Section: Macro-structurementioning

confidence: 99%