%0 Journal Article
%T Representa£¿£¿es Sociais da Droga e da Toxicodepend¨ºncia. Inqu¨¦rito ¨¤ popula£¿£¿o jovem presente no Rock in Rio - Lisboa 2008
%A Calado
%A Vasco Gil
%A Lavado
%A Elsa
%J Toxicodepend¨ºncias
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X 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 con-sidered 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, delin-quency or repression. further more, one can also conclude that symbolically, to those interviewed, drug consumers and drug addicts are different and autonomous concepts.
%K social representation
%K drugs and drug addiction
%K youth.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-48902010000300003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en