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Toxicodependências
Print version ISSN 0874-4890
Abstract
CALADO, Vasco Gil and LAVADO, Elsa. Representações Sociais da Droga e da Toxicodependência. Inquérito à população jovem presente no Rock in Rio - Lisboa 2008. Toxicodependências [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.3, pp.17-27. ISSN 0874-4890.
It is presented the main results of the study Perceptions and Social Representation on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Inquiry to the Youth present in Rock in Rio - Lisboa 2008. Considering a sample of 1.165 teenagers and young adults, one can conclude that drugs are considered a serious social problem, although without generating much social alarm. Drugs social representation is today more individual based than social, less associated to problems such as crime, delinquency or repression. Further more, one can also conclude that symbolically, to those interviewed, drug consumers and drug addicts are different and autonomous concepts.
Keywords : Social Representation; Drugs and Drug Addiction; Youth.