Exploring the lived experience of the ritualistic consumption of substances and spatial bodily practices among users and former users in the society of Kamrup Metro.

They seem too easy-going, while sharing their excitement of substance consumption. They shared participants shared about the introduction of a new drug to them by a friend or peer group. The peer has always used the excuse of depicting the new drugs as a better option.

The notion of special occasion or a special place or a special item, has ignited the occurrence of substance consumption. A pattern of prevalence already occurring in the society of their own. Every one of the participants has learnt a new behaviour from the easy permissiveness of the society.

The narratives reflect an influence of Western sub-cultural lore. It depict some vivid sub-cultural methods of consumption of various drugs and no resistance could be seen among the participants while consuming new drugs. They felt excited and joyous to re-use their prior substances, but with time, the users fell remorseful for not getting rid of the substance and the former users feel grateful that they are no longer are in contact with that specific drug they used.

Analysis In order to analyse the data and obtain a comprehensive understanding, the analysis began with familiarisation through repeated reading. Next, the data was coded, which involves identifying and labelling significant meaningful segments. Finally, related codes were organised into preliminary themes, which underwent further refinement and were arranged into more general superordinate groups.

The process came to an end at the integration stage, when connections between instances were synthesised into logical results via ongoing review and improvement (Smith et al. 2009). Thus, IPA (Smith et al. 2009), which is theoretically based in phenomenology, hermeneutics and ideography, served as the basis of analysis for this study. In order to link specific lived experiences, the results were further evaluated with more comprehensive sociological understanding of the notion of perceived space (Lefebvre 1991), which draw meanings of drugs consumption patterns, in Indian culture.