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Conclusion and Reflections on Future Directions

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A recurrent theme throughout the production of this book has been a sense of new discourses emerging, along with associated new terminology, that are guiding our understanding of young adult drinking practices. An early starting point in the inception and development of this book—through to communication and discussion with collaborators—was the need to bring together disparate strands of research from different disciplines and different methodological traditions which each were grappling with a sense of change.

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Conroy, D., Measham, F. (2019). Conclusion and Reflections on Future Directions. In: Conroy, D., Measham, F. (eds) Young Adult Drinking Styles. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28607-1_18

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