Hooked on heroin
Subtitle: drugs and drifters in a globalized world
By: Philip Lalander.
Publisher: Berg; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Heroin abuse; Heroin abuse -- Sweden -- Norrköping; Subculture -- Sweden -- Norrköping
Description: "Rather than offer lofty and abstract theories on addiction, the author grounds his study firmly in the day-to-day lives of heroin users themselves. Norrkoping in Sweden is a mid-sized former industrial city like countless others throughout the world. It has suffered high unemployment as a result of its rapid decline as a hub of commerce. Once well known for housing the giant telecommunications company Ericsson, it sadly gains more notoriety today through its associations with heroin, which continues to be the drug of choice for Norrkoping's young people. Through privileged access to users themselves, Lalander is able to show us the real motivations and lifestyle choices behind addiction.

Personal testimonies candidly expose the underground activities of a thriving subculture and spark vexing questions as to why these young people choose to flirt with fatality. What media representations influence heroin users? Is this phenomenon the inevitable by-product of modern life? What are the root causes at play?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Under the city's shell; title: Before heroin; title: The secret cave; title: The threats that divide and unite; title: Doing drugs with honour and style; title: Who is directing?; title: The subculture's gender code; title: The whole world is yours.