Sheigla Murphy, PhD, Senior Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis, received the Senior Scholar award by the American Society of Sociology’s Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco section, at their annual meeting in August. This award is given based on accomplishments in publication, grants and overall contribution to the sociology of alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Dr. Geoffrey P. Hunt Appointed Professor
Dr. Geoffrey P. Hunt, Senior Scientist at ISA has been appointed Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research (CRF), School of Business and Social Sciences at the University of Aarhus in Denmark http://crf.au.dk/en/
An affiliation between the Institute for Scientific Analysis and CRF in Aarhus has been established to encourage collaborative research endeavors between scientists at both research centers, to increase a sharing of research data for pursuing cross-national research and to further the mentoring and training of pre and post-doctoral candidates from CRF.
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New articles published in Appetite, Journal of Youth Studies, and Qualitative Health Research
Our latest peer-reviewed journal articles:
Hunt, Geoffrey, Fazio, Adam, MacKenzie, Kathleen and Moloney, Molly. (2011). Food in the family. Bringing young people back in. Appetite, 56(2): 394-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2011.01.001
Moloney, Molly, Hunt, Geoffrey P., Joe-Laidler, Karen and MacKenzie, Kathleen. (2011). Young mother (in the) hood: Gang girls’ negotiation of new identities. Journal of Youth Studies, 14(1): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.506531
Fazio, Adam, Hunt, Geoffrey and Moloney, Molly. (2011). “It’s one of the better drugs to use”: Perceptions of cocaine use among gay and bisexual Asian American men. Qualitative Health Research, 21(5): 625-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732310385825
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Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy now published
Hunt, Geoffrey, Milhet, Maitena and Bergeron, Henri. (Eds.). (2011). Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy. Surrey: Ashgate.
Edited by Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis, USA, Maitena Milhet, French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, France and Henri Bergeron, Sciences Po, France
Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy
Current approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago; the concepts of addiction, on the one hand, and drug control on the other, having imposed themselves as the unquestionable central notions surrounding drug issues and discourses. Pathologization and criminalization are the dominant perspectives on psychoactive drugs, and it is difficult to describe drug consumption in any terms other than those of medicine, or to conceive of regulation except in terms of control and eradication.
Drugs and Culture presents other voices and understandings of drug issues, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use.
Adopting approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, political science and geopolitics to challenge the prevailing pathologization and criminalization of drug use, this book provides international and comparative perspectives on drug research, based on the latest research in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong.
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Sheigla Murphy to Serve on NIH Study Section Review Panel
At the invitation of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Sheigla Murphy will serve as a member of the Community Influences on Health Behavior Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, for the term beginning July 1, 2010 and ending June 30, 2014. Membership on a study section represents a major commitment of professional time and energy as well as a unique opportunity to contribute to the national biomedical research effort. Study sections review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields of science.
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Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife now published
Hunt, Geoffrey, Moloney, Molly and Evans, Kristin. (2010). Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife, London: Routledge.
Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ’s and promoters, Hunt, Moloney, and Evans examine the different social groupings that make up the scene. The authors explore the accomplishment of gender, sexuality, and Asian American ethnic identity and critically analyze the negotiation of risk and pleasure within the world of raves and dance clubs. We learn about young ravers and clubbers’ frustrations with recent attempts to control clubs and raves and their skepticism about official pronouncements on the dangers of ecstasy and other drugs, in this book that pivots between the local, the national, and the global in its approach.
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Geoffrey Hunt receives funding to continue research on drug use and dance scene
Dr. Geoffrey Hunt, with Co-Principal Investigators, Professor Karen Joe-Laidler and Dr. Bart Aoki were awarded a National Institute on Drug Abuse funding on “Asian American Gay and Bisexual Men, Club Drugs, and Nightlife”, to continue their work on drug use and the dance scene. In this three-and-a-half year funding, the project’s focus will be on issues of drug use among gay and bisexual Asian American men. Notions of ethnic and sexual identity among Asian American men of varying backgrounds and the ways in which these identities relate to their drug use and participation in high-risk sexual behaviors will be examined.
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New articles published in Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and Public Service Review: European Science & Technology
The latest published journal articles from members of our research team:
Hunt, Geoffrey, Moloney, Molly and Fazio, Adam. (2011). Embarking on large-scale qualitative research: Reaping the benefits of mixed methods in studying youth, clubs and drugs. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 28(5-6): 433-452. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10199-011-0040-1
Frank, Vibeke Asmussen and Hunt, Geoffrey. (2011). Social science research into drugs and alcohol. Public Service Review: European Science & Technology, 11: 354-355.