The importance of culture and context: rethinking risk and risk management in young drug using populations

被引:65
作者
Duff, C [1 ]
机构
[1] Australian Drug Fdn, Ctr Youth Drug Studies, Melbourne, Vic 3051, Australia
关键词
risk; risk management; drugs; young people; identity; lived experience;
D O I
10.1080/13698570310001606987
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
This paper explores the place of risk and risk management within contemporary Australian drug policy debates, focusing on the Howard Government's Tough on Drugs strategy. In exploring the conceptual bases of this strategy, this paper suggests that the characterisations of risk discernible in Australian debates have been dominated by a narrow group of 'expert' discourses leading to a range of gaps and omissions in the development of drugs policies. Furthermore the paper suggests that such omissions have significant implications for the development of harm reduction strategies within young drug using populations in Australia and elsewhere. In developing these arguments, the paper draws upon the work of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. Of particular interest is Beck's account of the tension between 'expert' and 'non-expert' risk assessments within contemporary risk management debates. In privileging more 'expert' risk knowledges, this paper suggests that Australian drug policies have ignored the range of 'non-expert' risk management strategies that exist within young drug using populations, and concludes that this ignorance of the culture and the context of young people's drug use further undermines the efficacy of health promotion efforts within these populations.
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页码:285 / 299
页数:15
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