This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Addiction Research & Theory on 11 Apr 2011, available online: http:// www.tandfonline.com/10.3109/16066359.2010.545156. Access to this work was provided by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) ScholarWorks@UMBC digital repository on the Maryland Shared Open Access (MD-SOAR) platform. Please provide feedback Please support the ScholarWorks@UMBC repository by emailing
[email protected] and telling us what having access to this work means to you and why it’s important to you. Thank you. NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Addict Res Theory. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 October 21. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptPublished NIH-PA Author Manuscript in final edited NIH-PA Author Manuscript form as: Addict Res Theory. 2011 ; 19(6): 528±541. Thizzin’—Ecstasy use contexts and emergent social meanings Juliet P. Lee*, Robynn S. Battle*, Brian Soller*, and Naomi Brandes** *Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1995 University Avenue. #450, Berkeley, CA 94704 **Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, 125 12th St. Ste. 390, Oakland, CA 94607 Abstract The drug “Ecstasy” has been most commonly associated with raves, or electronic music dance events, and attributed with sexual disinhibition. In an ethnographic investigation of drug use among second-generation Southeast Asian youth in Northern California (2003), respondents described little use of or interest in using Ecstasy; yet in a second study, Ecstasy was the fourth most commonly-used substance. This paper investigates the social contexts for this change in use patterns. Respondents were second-generation Southeast Asian youths and young adults between the ages of 15 and 26 who were currently or recently drug-involved.