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Original Articles

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

Pages 285-299 | Published online: 12 May 2010

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Gillian Kolla, Carol Strike, Tara Marie Watson, Jennifer Jairam, Benedikt Fischer & Ahmed M. Bayoumi. (2017) Risk creating and risk reducing: Community perceptions of supervised consumption facilities for illicit drug use. Health, Risk & Society 19:1-2, pages 91-111.
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Ross Coomber, Leah Moyle & Nigel South. (2016) The normalisation of drug supply: The social supply of drugs as the “other side” of the history of normalisation. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 23:3, pages 255-263.
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Michael Savic, S. Fiona Barker, Barbara Hunter & Dan I. Lubman. (2016) ‘Holy shit, didn’t realise my drinking was high risk’: an analysis of the way risk is enacted through an online alcohol and drug screening intervention. Health, Risk & Society 17:7-8, pages 565-591.
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Minjung Sung & Hyehyun Hong. (2015) The influence of risk perception on South Korean mothers’ use of infant formula. Health, Risk & Society 17:5-6, pages 368-387.
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Jan Wright, Christine Halse, Gary Levy & Catherine Hartung. (2014) Australian mothers’ notions of risk and uncertainty in relation to their pre-teen children. Health, Risk & Society 16:2, pages 185-198.
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Cameron Duff, Mark Asbridge, Serge Brochu, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Andrew D. Hathaway, David Marsh & Patricia G. Erickson. (2012) A Canadian perspective on cannabis normalization among adults. Addiction Research & Theory 20:4, pages 271-283.
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Will Small, David Moore, Jean Shoveller, Evan Wood & Thomas Kerr. (2012) Perceptions of risk and safety within injection settings: Injection drug users' reasons for attending a supervised injecting facility in Vancouver, Canada. Health, Risk & Society 14:4, pages 307-324.
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AlisonL. Nelson, Doune Macdonald & RebeccaA. Abbott. (2012) A risky business? Health and physical activity from the perspectives of urban Australian Indigenous young people. Health, Risk & Society 14:4, pages 325-340.
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Helen Trudgeon & David Evans. (2010) Injecting practices and knowledge of the associated risk among 16–19-year-old injecting drug users in Plymouth, UK. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 17:6, pages 808-820.
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Sandrine Blanchemanche, Stéphan Marette, Jutta Roosen & Philippe Verger. (2010) ‘Do not eat fish more than twice a week’. Rational choice regulation and risk communication: Uncertainty transfer from risk assessment to public. Health, Risk & Society 12:3, pages 271-292.
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PhilipR. Kavanaugh & TammyL. Anderson. (2009) Managing Physical and Sexual Assault Risk in Urban Nightlife: Individual- and Environmental-Level Influences. Deviant Behavior 30:8, pages 680-714.
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Paul Crawshaw & Robin Bunton. (2009) Logics of practice in the ‘risk environment’. Health, Risk & Society 11:3, pages 269-282.
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GeoffreyP. Hunt, Kristin Evans & Faith Kares. (2007) Drug Use and Meanings of Risk and Pleasure. Journal of Youth Studies 10:1, pages 73-96.
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Cameron Duff. (2007) Towards a theory of drug use contexts: Space, embodiment and practice. Addiction Research & Theory 15:5, pages 503-519.
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Cameron Duff & Bosco Rowland. (2006) ‘Rushing behind the wheel’: Investigating the prevalence of ‘drug driving’ among club and rave patrons in Melbourne, Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 13:4, pages 299-312.
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