Risk and restraint-The key to understanding the decreasing use of alcohol for young people in high income countries?
Amy PennayGabriel CaluzziMichael LivingstonSarah J MacLeanPublished in: Drug and alcohol review (2023)
Our findings endorse the idea that discourses of risk and individual responsibility shape the contemporary socio-cultural value of alcohol for young people. Risk avoidance has become routine and is manifested through the practice of restraint and control. This appears particular to high-income countries like Australia, where concerns about young people's futures and economic security are increasing, and where neoliberal politics are the foundations of governmental ideology.