Titre : | The commodity and exchange value of housing in the domestic economy of drug users |
Titre traduit : | (La valeur marchande et de change du logement dans l'économie domestique des usagers de drogue) |
Auteurs : | CLARE P. |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2006 |
Format : | 461-472 |
Note générale : |
Drugs Education, Prevention and Policy, 2006, 13, (5), 461-472 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés CONSOMMATION ; LOGEMENT ; PRIX ; TOXICOMANE ; OFFRE ; DEMANDE ; MARCHE DE LA DROGUE ; ECONOMIEThésaurus géographique ROYAUME-UNI |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : This study extends previous knowledge about items of consumption, expenditure and exchange in the domestic economy of problematic drug users. It identifies housing as a factor in this wider domestic economy whereby drug users manage their disposable income with a need to maintain drug supply, a need for subsistence and a need for accommodation. The components of the domestic economy of drug users relate to each other in more complicated ways than has been presented in much previous research describing the elasticity of drug consumption in relation to price and income. The elasticity of drug demand and consumption relates not only to the price of drugs but also to the price of other items of expenditure, one of which is accommodation. Housing is seen as a commodity in demand amongst a group of people for whom accommodation may be problematic, insecure or non-existent. Consequently it has an exchange value and can be bartered for other commodities or servicesdrugs, sex, money or goods. Using qualitative research the paper explores the way this relationship operates amongst a sample of forty problematic drug users in three areas of the North West of England and considers how changes in the Housing Benefit system could affect the relationship between housing and drug consumption. (Author's abstract.) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 15 |
Affiliation : |
126 Leyland Rd, Southport, Merseyside PR9 0JL, E-mail jilloviab73hotmail.co.uk Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1101552 |
Centre Emetteur : | 11 SEDAP |
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