Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

Montagne, 1992) or Rimini, in Italy, but English disc-jockeys were the ones who madeit popular. Nowadays, it is a movement with a great success in Great Britain, Germany,Holland…. In the places where there is a tradition of this kind of music, they divide thismovement into two subgroups: hardcore and mellow.On the Dutch sample we find a high percentage of people who like “mellow-house”and a low percentage of people who like “hardcore”. This fact is related mainly tosampling and represent a difference with the other countries. There are also significantdifferences between countries concerning “hip-hop”, “rap”, among others. We do notknow if these differences correspond to different musical preferences in each country,to different used names or to sampling.There is an especial relationship in this study between every type of music and theuse of ecstasy. With the house music there is always a higher proportion of ecstasyconsumers. But with rock music, pop, salsa and melodic music the proportion areinverted. Punk music in all the samples, with the exception of the Dutch one, relatesalso with the use of ecstasy. Some of the less popular music are sometimes associatedwith the use of ecstasy in some of the towns: that is the case of reggae in Palma deMallorca, Modena and Utrecht, Hip-hop in Coimbra and Palma de Mallorca and funkyin Palma de Mallorca and Utrecht.RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS (% on global sample)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTVery good 15,5 22,1 43,1 25,4 28,0Good 31,3 54,8 35,0 46,7 46,3Not good/Not bad 49,6 15,4 14,1 24,0 21,3Bad 03,6 04,5 04,2 02,7 03,6Very Bad 00,0 03,2 03,6 01,2 00,8In all the cities the relationship between the interviewees and their parents isnormally good or very good. Coimbra is a especial case: although there is a highpercentage of individuals who consider their relationship with them “no good, no bad”,it is also the only sample with 0 individuals who believe their relations with theirparents are “very bad”. These data confirms we are in front of a population that can notbe described as marginal.This question have preventive implications, because as we know the family can be avery effective preventive tool. The relationship between the youngster and their familyis very good and furthermore in some countries (especially Spain, Italy and Portugal)people depends at many levels on their families. Family prevention should be acommoner strategy.56