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The control of drugs and drug users : reason or reaction?
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- Creator
- edited by Ross Coomber
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1998
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- Physical Details
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- xxv, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789057021886, 9057021889, 9057021870, 9789057021879, 9057020424, 9789057020421
- OCLC
- ocm38724367
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- I. The emergence of drug controls. Pathologising the soul : the construction of a 19th century analysis of opiate addiction / Geoffrey Harding -- Reform, racism, and rackets : alcohol and drug prohibition in the United States / Michael Woodiwiss -- The development of drug control in Britain / Joy Mott and Philip Bean -- Medical power and knowledge : the treatment and control of drugs and drug users / Rachel Lart -- The agony and the ecstasy : drugs, media, and morality / Karim Murji. II. The current control context. Tackling drug control in Britain : from Sir Malcolm Delevingne to the new drugs strategy / Nigel South -- America's drug war : fact or fiction? / Bruce Billungton -- Pragmatism or principle? : continuity and change in the British approach to treatment and control / Susanne MacGregor -- The perils of prohibition / Thomas Szasz. III. Current trends and possibilities for the future. Drug crop producing countries : a development perspective / David Mansfield and Colin Sage -- Missed opportunities? : beneficial uses of illicit drugs / Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar -- Informal social controls and the liberalization of drug laws and policies / Wayne M. Harding -- International trends in drug policy / Richard Hartnoll
Subjects
- Drug control.
- Drug control -- Great Britain.
- Drug control -- United States.
- Drug abuse.
- Drug abuse -- Great Britain.
- Drug abuse -- United States.
- Drug addiction.
- Drug and Narcotic Control
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- Drug and Narcotic Control -- history
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- Public Policy
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- Substance-Related Disorders
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- United Kingdom
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- United States
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