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10.7202/000419ar>
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Abstract
The major impact that an inadequate family can have on the drug consumption of young people is a well known and informed fact. For example, an inconsistent parental discipline constitutes a risk factor for the development of drug addiction. But how exactly can inconstant parental discipline lead to drug addiction ? What processes are involved ? Our study shows that part of the answer lies in the way youths live this type of parental discipline, of how they interpret it and also in the feelings that it provokes in them, and the way those feelings make them react. Led in a phenomenological perspective, we conducted a qualitative study with 38 young people mainly taken care of in a treatment centre for drug addictions or in a youth centre. The autobiographical account was used as the principal data-gathering tool. Combination of thematic and sequential analyses constituted the main material reduction approach. The points of convergence or divergence that emerge from the transversal analysis of accounts collected regarding the role of the family in the youth’s trajectories of consumption is presented. Seen under family perspective, it seems that several young people say they use drugs because of their parent’s consumption, to do like them or to forget their family problems.