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THE DRUGTAKERS: THE SOCIAL MEANING OF DRUG USE. M. Young. London : Paladin, 1971, 240 pp., 60 pence (not sold in the United States)

Young’s book, based at least in part on his participant observation in Wotting Hill, a heterogeneous London Bohemian neighborhood, is yet another attempt at clarification of the drug problem. From its title (but why the social meaning instead of meanings’), it appears to be an extension of the lucid and forceful analyses of Lindesmith, Becker, Eric Goode, and H. L. Lennard. His thesis is that the meanings of drug use are socially and culturally provided, that they grow from and provide a component in a contrast perspective or alternative reality which opposes the conventional or &dquo;absolutistic&dquo; reality &dquo;monolith,&dquo; and that societal