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The potential health value and pitfalls of e-cigarettes are currently under dispute in the scientific community. Exploring young adult e-cigarette users' perceptions would assist in adding a public dimension of understanding to the literature and in scientific public health decision making. Therefore, in this study, we collected and analyzed data from interviews with young adult (n = 14) e-cigarette users and found that many referred to e-cigarettes as "snacks," indicating that they considered that both their frequency of use and addiction were manageable and that they could stop using e-cigarettes at any time. To further understand the behavior of Chinese young adults in relation to their perception of e-cigarettes as a "snack", the study developed a social context framework (crossroads model) and psychological judgment model to explain how youth e-cigarette users' perception of "controlled addiction and ready cessation" arises. These models can be used to assess the effectiveness of e-cigarette policy.
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Family plays an essential role in drug-related behavior. Based on a case study of the Lin family, whose members have all taken drugs for almost 20 years but have now completed community rehabilitation, in this study, we attempted to reveal the specific operating mechanisms of the family during the process of rehabilitation. In the analysis process, we divided the drug-use history of this family into three stages from a diachronic dimension: promote-disorder-control; we used family politics as the theoretical framework. During the drug-use promotion stage (1990-1999), all members began to use drugs. During the disorder stage (2000-2017), the Lin family members consistently relapsed intermittently due to the brutal effects of social forces and the lack of family order. Finally, in the control stage (2018-2021), the Lin family established a new family order and completed rehabilitation. The establishment process produced changes in the family politics structure, including a shift in the center of power and the decision-making patterns. Additionally, we found that the interweaving of love and power was another key trait of family politics, embodied in behavior regulation, resource sharing, and maintaining dignity among members, which further consolidated the establishment of the new family order. The results of our analysis of endogenous family change both enrich the abstract concept of family support in addiction recovery and present the potential a family has in recovery.
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How PWUD (people who use drugs) live under drug governance is an important research question. This study adopts a qualitative research method to explore how PWUD in China self-manage after perceiving the dilemma of incomplete citizenship and the social pressure brought by drug control arrangements. Through analysis of 130 PWUD's files and in-depth interviews with 10 interviewees (from the 24 preliminary interviews), this study found that PWUD developed action strategies of hidden mobility (spatial isolation), disconnection of past experiences (time isolation), instrumental actions, as well as narrative strategies of reframing themselves as ordinary citizens with attempts of reversing identity disadvantages. Further, PWUD's self-management strategies manifest as a disengagement model in which the actors (PWUD, not rehabilitation agencies) do not intend to develop integrative positive identities through dispersed, practiced behavioral strategies, but attempt to return to pre-addiction, non-socially exclusionary citizenship experiences. The disengagement model and its negative effect on PWUD's social integration help us reflect on the current implementation of rehabilitation projects and institutional settings of drug governance.