The Control of drugs and drug users
Subtitle: reason or reaction?
By: edited by Ross Coomber.
Contributors: Coomber, Ross.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers; Harwood Academic
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Drug control.; Drug control -- Great Britain.; Drug control -- United States.; Drug abuse.; Drug abuse -- Great Britain.; Drug abuse -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The emergence of drug controls. Pathologising the soul : the construction of a 19th century analysis of opiate addiction / Geoffrey Harding; title: Reform, racism, and rackets : alcohol and drug prohibition in the United States / Michael Woodiwiss; title: The development of drug control in Britain / Joy Mott and Philip Bean; title: Medical power and knowledge : the treatment and control of drugs and drug users / Rachel Lart; title: 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; title: America's drug war : fact or fiction? / Bruce Billungton; title: Pragmatism or principle? : continuity and change in the British approach to treatment and control / Susanne MacGregor; title: 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; title: Missed opportunities? : beneficial uses of illicit drugs / Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar; title: Informal social controls and the liberalization of drug laws and policies / Wayne M. Harding; title: International trends in drug policy / Richard Hartnoll.