Young Adult Drinking Styles

Chapter 1: Book introduction: Young adult drinking styles; Dominic Conroy and Fiona Measham.- Part 1: Trends in young adult alcohol use.- Chapter 2: Have recent declines in adolescent drinking continued into young adulthood?; Michael Livingston and Rakhi Vashishtha.- Chapter 3: Alcohol, Young Adults and the New Millennium: Changing Meanings in a Changing Social Climate; Gabriel Caluzzi and Amy Pennay.- Chapter 4: Understanding life transitions and drinking trajectories in adulthood; Marjana Martinic and Arlene Bigirimana.- Part 2: Contextualising young adult drinking.- Chapter 5: Into The Woods: Contextualising atypical intoxication by young adults in music festivals and nightlife tourist resorts; Tim Turner and Fiona Measham.- Chapter 6: Drinking norms and alcohol identities in the context of social media interactions among university students: An overview of relevant literature; Brad Ridout.- Chapter 7: Social Media and Young Adults' Drinking Cultures: Orienting Research Towards Multiplicity and Mobility; Ian Goodwin and Antonia Lyons.- Chapter 8: Friendship and Alcohol Use Among Young Adults: A Cross-Disciplinary Literature Review; Dominic Conroy and Sarah MacLean.- Chapter 9: Gender in young adults' discourses of drinking and drunkenness; Alexandra Bogren.- Chapter 10: Alcohol consumption among young people in marginalised groups; Lana Ireland.- Part 3: Recognizing the breadth of young adult drinking styles.- Chapter 11: Non-drinkers and Non-drinking: A Review, A Critique and Pathways to Policy; Emma Banister, Dominic Conroy and Maria Piacentini.- Chapter 12: Can't dance without being drunk? Exploring the enjoyment and acceptability of conscious-clubbing in young people; Emma Davies, Kyle Brown, Kimberley Hill, Mattias Johansson and Joanne Smith.- Chapter 13: Young people and temporary alcohol abstinence during Dry January; Richard de Visser.- Part 4: Alcohol policy relating to young adult drinking practices.- Chapter 14: University Alcohol Policy: Findings

Dominic Conroy is Lecturer in psychology at the University of East London, UK. Dominic is interested in exploring young adult drinking practices that illuminate issues of intimacy and social bonding underpinning alcohol use and developing understanding of flexible drinking styles and agency involved in young adults' alcohol use. Dominic's mixed methods research also involves developing effective behavioural interventions designed to reduce excessive alcohol consumption among young adults.
Fiona Measham is Chair in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Fiona has conducted research for nearly three decades across a broad area of criminology and social policy, exploring changing trends in legal and illegal drugs, night time and festival economies and the socio-cultural context to consumption. Fiona has served on numerous scientific advisory committees and expert panels and is co-founder and co-director of The Loop UK and The Loop AU.
This book was nominated as the category winner in Psychiatry at the British Medical Association Book Awards 2021.