A Sociological Perspective on Drug Exchange and Consumption Dynamics

This essay explores the social dynamics underlying drug exchange and consumption, focusing on the cultural, social, and emotional connections between suppliers and users. It uses ethnographic research to highlight the significance of social relationships in drug marketplaces. The essay discusses how factors like governmental practices, poor housing, and cultural opinions on drug use influence drug exchange. It also examines the impact of social relationships, social influences, and social learning on drug usage, particularly in regions with socioeconomic challenges. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of social support in drug recovery and addiction treatment, suggesting that healthy social relationships can hasten recovery. The essay argues that drug use is influenced by individual cultural perceptions and complex societal affiliations, with market places participating in drug trades emerging as a result of dynamic societal affiliations.

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Summary
The case research was preferred with the aim of evolving an argumentative framework of
the essay. It extensively discusses the social procedure that underlines the practice of
exchange of drugs amid personnels. Therefore, one of the fundamental societal concerns
influencing society at present-day is the illegal drug utilisation amid the young people, which
is the existence of the market places and critical areas where the exchange of drug is a
booming mechanism. In the process of utilising an ethnographic study, the essayist featured
widely the significance of the social connections underlying the market exchange procedures
in market areas.
Exchange is one the vital ways by which things that are useful shift from one person to
another thus it maintains and controls the social hierarchy. Majority of the exchanges are
symbolic hence they have societal meanings. Exchange of drugs is beyond societal
affiliations, income, perceptions, housing, environment and social economic status that play
as a significant role in manipulating the exchange of drugs. In regards to de launey (2001, 5)
he contends that exchange of drugs are influenced politically, socially and culturally. The
fundamental impacts on drug exchange constitutes of governmental practise, poor housing on
resource access and local black market. On the other hand, cultural opinions on the utilisation
of drugs have great impact on the people. The utilisation of drugs like marijuana has
increased due to the alternating political situation that circumnavigate on societal perception,
drug utilisation and high affiliation of drug to symbolism.
The essayist highpoints that market places participating in drug trades are high
contrasted to merchandise of trade and stock forms, but also flourish vigorously on the
cultural, social and enthusiastic connections existing amongst the providers and the clients.
Dwyer (2011, 12), places accentuation on this crucial relationship by leading ethnographic
research, utilising individual commitment in cigarette utilisation and trade to disclose and

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relate to the exchanges of drugs happening in the arcade of Footscray, Vietnam. A strategic
instance of this situation is affiliated to a case study where the author started to be alluded as
'senior sister' by local people at the coffee shop which grew just after a duration of
unexpected cigarettes exchanges. This contextual analysis can be broadly linked and
identified with the exploration directing by de Launey (2001, 23), which investigated the
covered concerns of drug utilisation in a town in South Wales known as Nimbin.
The essayist watches the thriving Nimbin drug trade to be related with far more
noteworthy entanglements, for example, regular issues of underprivileged financial
foundations, predominance of poor lodging, shared social impression of the health and solace
fundamental drug usage in the administration of everyday life concerns, consequently
featuring similitudes with the social concerns (Dwyer 2011, 45).
In this article, Robyn Dwyer evaluates the effects of exchange to raise an argument that
illegal drugs are reproduced and produced through social and dynamic practices (Dwyer
2011, p. 19). The social investigation over two years focused on highlighting the significance
of the supremacy of exchange, which can create an association amid two direct inverses.
Dwyer using ethnographic examiner investigates the procedure of the regular daily existences
of Vietnamese heroin clients and vendors who are situated in the Melbourne suburb of
Footscray in which they take part amid the local heroin market place.
Social Process Surrounding Drug Consumption
The intrinsic factor that influences drug consumption in regards to Dwyer (2011, 56) is the
prevalence of social relationships. Therefore, the vital arguments that are in support of the
positive affiliation amid drug exchanges and social relations need to be put into
considerations.
1. High demand for drugs amid couples in Mexico has been moulded as a result of
structural frameworks and social relationships. In addition, the critical pre-requites of

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increased usage of drugs revolve around couples financial constraints in predominant of
healthcare organisations (Bazzi et al. 2016, 98).
2. Social relationships, social impacts and social learning are the essential processes that
underly the drug usage and behaviour engagement like delinquency. This can be observed to
ensure compliance convection and peer pressures that encourage the use of drugs due to the
preference affiliated to non- conventional to reverting behaviours for glamour and comfort
(Brauer and De Coster 2015, 23).
3. Increased utilisation of drugs was predominant in the regions that were associated
with poor socioeconomic and poverty backgrounds. This may be as a result of scarcity of
education in those regions that are affiliated with increased affordability and accessibility of
health resources and increased rate of occupants with the use of drugs as means of finding
comfort amid themselves. However, living in the regions that have a developed health
system will lead to the reduction of drug usage (Linton et al. 2016, 14).
Conclusion: Implications, Reservation and Importance
Ethnographic knowledge is termed as a practical idea. The appropriate way of
understanding the concept is by getting involved in it. One of the ways that made me to
physically understand the method of ethnography, cultural and social process is through the
exchange of cigarettes. Cigarette exchange enhanced the realisation that the entire
transactions and transfers in the market places acted as means of passing important things
amid creating, richly symbolic, people, creating and recreating social order in the globe.
Acquiring understandings from the study by Dwyer (2011, 19) influences the primary
societal drug usage that targets to attach medication by the use of supportive arguments that
have been stated below:

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1. The availability of social support focused on the family member causalities by the use
of health education, which can help in abstinence and drug use recovery (Stevens et al. 2015,
98).
2. Provision of health social relationship, social support and social prizes are vital ways
of establishing valuable change behaviour in health which comprises of rehabilitation and
addiction recovery (Latkin and Knowlton, 2015, 2)
3. Community therapy approach that leads to the heightened provision of social
sustenance that has been affiliated to quick recapture from the usage of drugs by addicts. The
social identity framework on drug cessation encompass social perceptions of norms, esteem,
social control, familiarity and availability that can be utilised to discourse the complicated
societal associations of addiction that leads to a comprehensive treatment of approach (Frings
and Albery 2015, 19).
4. The affiliation of societal identities such as ‘recovery’, ‘redemption’,’ ‘loss of
identity’ and ‘substance user’ has been dominant in drug uses all through the process of
obsession and rehabilitation as result facilitating enclosure wellbeing and social associations
by healthcare systems that targets proper medication (Dingle, Cruwys and Frings 2015, 90).
In conclusion, it is believed that exchange, supply and the utilisation of drugs such as
heroin amid the people are influenced by individual cultural perceptions and complex societal
affiliations. Nonetheless, it is believed that societal support can enhance quick recovery from
utilisation of drug and addiction. Social support is an essential aspect thus it enhances drug
recovery, addiction and treatment. Establishment of healthy social support hastens the
recovery rate of individuals in order to eradicate drug addiction. Market places that take part
in exchange of drugs erupt as a result of complex societal affiliations that are dynamic. The
essayist is able to retrieve data on the process of exchange of drugs, furthermore establishing
an understanding amid the drug addicts. Finally, the vital factors that have impact on the

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usage of drugs comprise of power associations amid individuals, cultural perception and
power differences.

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