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Chapter 5. Russian Media Narratives About Young Drug Users
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This article focuses on how illegal drug use among young people is constructed in the Russian press by using narrative analysis and identifies three main discourses: a foreign problem discourse, a disease discourse, and a medical discourse.Abstract:
Since the 1960s, the media in Western Europe and the United States has been one important actor in the public understanding of the drug phenomenon. In Russia, however, it is only since the 1980s that illegal drugs have been discussed in the media and this discussion remains on-going today. By using narrative analysis, this article focuses on how illegal drug use among young people is constructed in the Russian press. As a result of the narrative analysis, three main discourses were identified: a foreign problem discourse, a disease discourse, and a medical discourse.read more
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