Strong peer pressure can induce a teenager to try cocaine. For this reason, it is necessary that drug prevention programmes include measures to prevent non-consumers from running the risk of being dragged by drug-consuming youngsters with whom they socialise. These are some of the statements contained in the study Among Lines: A Teenage Look towards Cocaine, by UdL lecturer in Anthropology Joan Pallarés and David Martínez Oró, social psychologist at the IGENUS Foundation. The book is based on fieldwork with around 60 youngsters among 15 and 19 years carried out in Lleida, Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Albacete.

The authors’ research highlights that teenagers relate cocaine consumption with leisure contexts and always in a group. Therefore, they consider it "normal" on weekend nights, during holidays and in special celebrations. As Pallarés explains, "teenagers experience leisure behaviour as a ritual of transition into youth. They define their initiation into cocaine consumption as crossing a barrier.”

Among Lines: A Teenage Look towards Cocaine was presented in the Faculty of Educational Sciences (Cappont campus). The authors were accompanied in the event by UdL lecturer Fidel Molina and by the Director of Milenio Publications Lluís Pagès.