Psychoactive Drug Abuse in Hong Kong Life Satisfaction and Drug Use /

• Main Authors: Cheung, Yuet Wah (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cheung, Nicole Wai-ting (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Quality of Life in Asia, 11
• Subjects: Quality of life.; Public health.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Quality of Life Research.; Public Health.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

This book studies young people's use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong. Specifically, it focuses on how life satisfaction may affect drug use among a sample of psychoactive drug users in Hong Kong. The book addresses the dearth of research on the rol...

Table of Contents:

• Foreward
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Figures and tables
• Glossary of terms
• Chapter 1: Life satisfaction and adolescents
• Chapter 2: Illicit drug use in young people in Hong Kong
• Chapter 3: The research question and conceptual framework
• Chapter 4: Measurements of variables, the sample and data collection
• Chapter 5: Data analysis and findings
• Chapter 6: Focus group findings
• Chapter 7: Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index.