Stoned, drunk, or sober? : understanding alcohol and drug use through qualitative, quantitative, and longitudinal research /

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Author / Creator:	Lowney, Jeremiah, 1939-
Imprint:	Lanham : University Press of America, c2008.
Description:	vi, 191 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Drug abuse -- California -- San Diego. Alcoholism -- California -- San Diego. Surfers -- Drug use -- California -- San Diego. Surfers -- Alcohol use -- California -- San Diego. Alcoholism. Drug abuse. California -- San Diego.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7475848

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ISBN:	9780761841005 (paperback : alk. paper) 0761841008 (paperback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In 1970, sociologist Jeremiah Lowney began researching a group of surfers called the "Wall Gang" in a small community of drug and alcohol users on Golden Beach in San Diego, California. Stoned, Drunk, or Sober? is the culmination of Lowney's thirty-eight years of intensive non-participant observation of seventy-two surfers. This book offers a rare look at various qualitative techniques employed to understand alcohol and drug use. Lowney utilizes basic quantitative statistical data to complement and verify the qualitative findings, thereby providing a deeper understanding than if only one or the other had been used. Because it spans so many years, Lowney's longitudinal research offers readers an opportunity to fully grasp the various factors that contribute to substance abuse, the various paths used to overcome the severe consequences of addiction, and the histories of those who did not use drugs, those who did, and those who are now "free and sober.""--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: Lowney, Jeremiah, 1939- Stoned, drunk, or sober? Lanham : University Press of America, c2008

Table of Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Drunkenness, Problem Drinking, and Alcoholism
Chapter 3. An Ethnography of Drug Use in a Juvenile Residential Treatment Center
Chapter 4. Origins of the Research and the Wall Gang
Chapter 5. Details of Methodology: "How Can We Accept What You Say?"
Chapter 6. Everyday Life in the Golden Beach Drug Subculture: 1975-76
Chapter 7. Complementary Results of Qualitative & Quantitative Data
Chapter 8. Longitudinal Research Through the Years
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
About the Author

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