Question 1Part 1: Critically assess drug-related risks in relation to music festivals .Part 2: Evaluate current strategies to reduce these risks (1000 words).This question should be answered as two parts, with the title of each part included as a heading. Each part should have a very brief introduction and conclusion (a couple of sentences to set the scene and a couple of sentences to pull it together at the end). Part 1 requires you to analysepatterns of atypical drug use within the context of music festivals. What types of drug are used and to what extent? How does drug use change within festival space? For example, do people choose to take more of a type of drug than they usually do? Do they try drugs for the first time? Do they take drugs that they have not tried before? Do they mix drugs (and alcohol) that they do not usually mix at home?
Question 2Evaluate the nature, extent, and potential harms of drug use in nightlife tourist resorts
This question requires you to analyse atypical patterns of drug use that occur in the social contextofnightlife tourist resorts. Examples of such resorts are popular European beach destinations associated with hedonistic partying such as Ibiza, Aya Napaand Magaluf, as well places such as Sunny Beach in Bulgaria. You might also choose to focus on more long-haul events such as the ‘full-moon’ parties of Goa and Thailand, or on cities such as Amsterdam. The question requires you to discuss how tourists’ patterns of drug use change in these spaces (i.e. which drugs are taken and to what extent) in comparison to their usual patterns of drug consumption at home. The second part of the question requires you to analyse how these atypical patterns of drug use are associated with multiple risks (e.g. harm related to health, illegality, crime, etc).
Question 3Illicit drug use is anormal aspect of youth leisure time.
Discuss.This question requires you to consider the ‘normalization thesis’ that emerged in the 1990s in response to the proliferation of drugs such as ecstasy amongst the ‘rave generation’. Key issues to address would include:
•What is the ‘normalization thesis’?
•What criticisms have been directed at this concept?
•How has the original normalization thesis been reviewed and modified?
•What is meant by bounded normalization?
•How has drug use amongst young people altered since the 1990s?
•Is the use of illicit drugs a normal feature of youth leisure time, or is it a marginal / deviant issue