Bruno V.V. Substance Use Among Adults. In: Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities. View from Russia [Electronic resource]: collected papers XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities ( Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018) ...

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the adult category of drug users. Based on the materials of the online survey of the able-bodied population aged 18-60 years, devoted to the attitude of the population towards drugs and conducted in 2017 by a multi-stage quota sample (N=1506), the features of 2 age groups were analyzed: young adults (24-29 years) and more mature adults (30-39 years). A socio-demographic portrait of an adult episodic drug user is drawn up, such characteristics of respondents as value orientations, ways of leisure are considered. The prevalence of propensity to risk-taking behavior among adults and its relation to the search for sensations are described. The relationship between the propensity to risk-taking behavior and the prevalence of drug tests is analyzed. It is shown that the patterns of episodic drug use are quite common in society, and these adult drug users, having their own specific features, however, are fully integrated into the social environment, without forming a special subcultural group. They have not lost value-normative regulators of social behavior. However, episodic consumption of drugs is perceived by adult drug users as something acceptable that they can now afford, since already have a certain amount of resources, including financial, but not yet burdened with many obligations.

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