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A Little Nightclub Medicine: The Healthcare Implications Of Clubbing

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Introduction

Difficulties have been consistently identified in getting fair, balanced coverage of the hazards associated with clubbing. As the owner of the Sydney club ‘Sublime’ says: "One of the greatest anxieties that a club owner has, is of an ambulance outside the club". It is bad for business and potentially, if things go seriously wrong (as with ‘Sublime’) and they have deaths from drugs, they face the loss of their licence at the very least. In July 1999, for example, Cream nightclub in Liverpool eventually and inevitably had their first ‘ecstasy death’. Happily, perhaps because of Cream’s very forward and honest approach to the drugs issue and other issues in clubbing there were no more adverse stories in the local press. Clubbing has changed somewhat since the 1970s but some things do not change. It is basically about fun, and I'am convinced clubbing is essentially good for you and fun is good for you. Over the last ten years or so clubbing...

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Exploring the Drugs-Crime Connection within the Electronic Dance Music..

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ABSTRACT

This report explores how the cultural ethos, behavioral norms, activities, and individual and group identities (subcultural phenomena), inherent to the electronic dance music (EDMtrance, house, and techno music) and the hip hop/rap (HH) nightclub scenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania impact the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and crime, with additional attention to victimization (the ADC+V relationship). These two music scenes provide a major source of leisure and entertainment activity for many young adults today, yet the subcultures surrounding them are disparate and have been linked to diverse social problems, including alcohol and illegal drug abuse, criminal activity and victimization. This understudied, but increasingly popular social phenomenon has the potential to expand the scope of the drugs - crime debate to settings and populations not previously studied, and also to account for increasingly salient issues in contemporary society. We also elaborate on how the ADC+V relationship varies by two dimensions: the demographic make-up of participants (e.g., race/ethnicity and gender) and their involvement with and commitment to the subcultures...

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The Psychology and the Politics of Nightclub Surveillance Video

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Last week, pro football player Aaron Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of his friend Odin Lloyd after a disagreement at a nightclub in June 2013. Surveillance video footage played an important role in the trial, for both the prosecution and the defense.

In order to demonstrate Hernandez’s volatile personality, the prosecution called a witness who testified about meeting Hernandez at the club the same night of his altercation with Lloyd. When she didn’t want to dance with Hernandez, she said, he became “agitated” and “aggressive.” Hernandez’s defense attorney then tried to undermine that testimony with video footage from inside the club that showed the witness dancing with Hernandez, seemingly willingly.

Surveillance video can indict or defend, however, depending on how it’s spun; prosecutors also used several hours of video footage of Hernandez’s house to try to demonstrate that he was acting calmly, normally, and without remorse,...

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