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Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical, spiritual and psychological) and thus should be respected. This narrative dictates how and when they use it (e.g. with intention and not recreationally), distances from other drugs (which are regarded as harmful) and directs their physiological experiences. Findings suggest that the symbolic meaning associated with specific drugs justifies using it and directs and encourages continued use. Thus, understanding drug use requires examining how discourse about specific drugs are incorporated into personal narratives.
Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical, spiritual and psychological) and thus should be respected. This narrative dictates how and when they use it (e.g. with intention and not recreationally), distances from other drugs (which are regarded as harmful) and directs their physiological experiences. Findings suggest that the symbolic meaning associated with specific drugs justifies using it and directs and encourages continued use. Thus, understanding drug use requires examining how discourse about specific drugs are incorporated into personal narratives.
This article deals with the problem of early diagnosis of the use of psychoactive substances in the child and adolescent environment, as well as the study of individual and personal characteristics of individuals at addictive risk. On the basis of the conducted research, the authors carried out a factor analysis of the personal characteristics of individuals of the addictive risk group, based on the use of the psychodiagnostic questionnaire PDO «Narcorisk» (Syrkin et al., 2016) together with a teenage version of the 16-factor Ketell questionnaire and a standardized multifactor method modified for adolescents personality studies (SMIL L. Sobchik). It is assumed that there are correlations between the risk profiles of persons prone to the use of psychoactive substances and their individual and personal characteristics, consideration of which makes it possible to personalize preventive work. The authors note that the factor analysis of the obtained results makes it possible to identify characteristic features of the studied personality profiles. Thus, the abusive personality profile is characterized by: openness, subordination, credulity, conformity, pessimism and anxiety, as well as disorganization and lack of individuality. The hedonistic personality profile correlated with such indicators as openness, emotional stability, courage, tension, impulsivity, individuality, optimism, impracticality and insubordination. The antisocial personality profile is characterized by emotional instability, insubordination, intemperance, rigidity, straightforwardness, anxiety, tension, low self-control, impulsivity, rigidity and social introversion. The conformal personality profile is characterized by: subordination, credulity, practicality, anxiety, conservatism, conformity, self-control, tension, neurotic overcontrol, pessimism and rigidity. The cognitive-destructive personality profile is represented by such characteristics as: reduced intelligence, subordination, conformity and rigidity. The results obtained allow practitioners in the field of psychology and pedagogy of dependent behavior to better understand the nature of the formation of the risk profile of adolescents prone to the use of psychoactive substances, provide them with targeted preventive care, develop and adjust the content of preventive measures, predict behavioral strategies, build an individual preventive route taking into account their individual and personal characteristics.
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