By Nigel South
This authoritative assessment of substances and society at the present time examines: even if a means of `normalization' of substances and drug use is less than means; the talk over prohibition as opposed to laws; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; medications and dance cultures; drug use between younger women; photographs of `race' and medication; clinical responses to medications; policing recommendations and controlling drug clients; drug regulate and activity; and the query of prohibition as opposed to liberalization.
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The i m m e d i a t e a s s u m p t i o n a b o u t Acid H o u s e w a s that it concerned LSD. In fact, this t u r n e d o u t to b e correct, as LSD figured quite p r o m i n ently in t h e early p e r i o d just a h e a d of o r alongside Ecstasy as a d m g of choice. But at t h e time, t h e t e r m w a s linked to the Chicago m u s i c scene: Paul Staines of t h e Freedom to Party C a m p a i g n later claimed h e m a d e u p this connection to p u t journalists off t h e scent b y linking t h e w o r d 'acid' to t h e technique of sampling.
To an extent this mirrors the picture of c o n s p i c u o u s c o n s u m p t i o n enjoyed b y a lucky few that w a s so characteristic of the previous d e c a d e . The a b i d i n g stereotypical i m a g e of 1980s Britain w a s the 25-year-old financial broker w i t h mobile p h o n e , Porsche a n d u n l i m i t e d supplies of cocaine. O n e m i g h t argue that m a n y m o r e are n o w joining the p a r t y - g o i n g to the ' i n ' clubs, h e l p i n g to define t h e infinite varieties of d a n c e m u s i c (an exercise i n niche m a r k e t i n g w h i c h m a i n s t r e a m business w o u l d b e p r o u d of), w e a r i n g fashionable designer labels a n d taking the fashionable d m g s .
This takes m a n y forms, including the u s e of relaxing a m b i e n t m u s i c , a gentle b a c k d r o p of easylistening s o u n d , almost aural w a l l p a p e r in chiU-out areas w h e r e p e o p l e might b e recovering from a l o n g n i g h t of Ecstasy-driven d a n c i n g . To take account of the fact that it can b e d a n g e r o u s to b e c o m e o v e r h e a t e d t h r o u g h t a k i n g Ecstasy (with its effect of raising b o d y t e m p e r a t u r e ) in combination w i t h e x t e n d e d b o u t s of n o n - s t o p dancing, club fashions in clothes c h a n g e d to m u c h looser, m o r e b a g g y styles.
