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Health Education Research, Vol. 14, No. 5, 707-708, October 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Review

Illegal Leisure: The Normalisation of Adolescent Recreational Drug Use

Howard Parker, John Aldridge, Fiona Measham and Philip Haynes

Routledge, London, 1998, 192 pp. ISBN 0–415–15810–9
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Brighton

This book provides a full account of the North West Longitudinal Study of adolescent drug use. This quantitative and qualitative research was the largest single survey of adolescent drug use in Britain, although its findings are similar in many respects to the numerous, smaller local and national cross-sectional studies that began in the mid-1980s and have continued since. The North West Longitudinal Study was able to attract considerable resources and given its longitudinal validity provides a considerable payoff in terms of methodological robustness when compared to the many . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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