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The art of music performance: risk or protection for substance use?

Musicians are a population often stereotypically linked to a wide range of substance use behaviours (Miller & Quigley, 2011). This stereotype can be seen even among musician population. For example, Chesky & Hipple (1999), in their research of musicians’ perceptions of the extent of widespread drug use among musicians found out that approximately one- third of research sample (N=3, 278) perceived that drug use among musicians is widespread. Still, there are no unambiguous and reliable data on the prevalence of substance use by musician compared to general population. There are some fragmented data (substance use in some genres of music or substance use by artist in general). For example, Butkovic & Rancic Dopudj (2016) find out that frequency of alcohol consumption was statistically higher for heavy metal musicians than in the general population and Wills (2003) stated, based on retrospective analysis of the biographies of 40 mid-century famous US jazz musicians, that more than half of his subjects experienced heroin addiction at some point in their lives. Regarding the type of art, Descoteaux, (2014) found out that performing artist (including musicians) use licit and illicit substances more that general population (with an exception of tobacco use). In the same time, evidence can be found that youth involvement in music education can enhance positive youth development (Peretz & Zatorre, 2003, Resnicow, Salovey & Repp, 2004, Mitchell & MacDonald, 2006, Pitts, 2007, Scripp, 2007, Hallam, 2010, Miranda & Gaudreau, 2011, Miranda, 2012, Scripp et al 2013, Elpus, 2013) and even be a protective factor in the field of substance use (Elpus, 2013). Results from the last mention study suggest that, in many respects, adolescent arts students achieve significantly more positive developmental outcomes than their peers who do not pursue arts coursework in schools and, specifically, music students were less likely to use illicit substances both as adolescents and into adulthood. In this poster, result of the research review will be presented with the goal to answer the question: is performing music risk or protective factor for substance use?

music, risk/protective factor, substance use

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