Drugs, deviancy, and democracy in Iran
Subtitle: the interaction of state and civil society
By: Janne Bjerre Christensen
Series: International library of Iranian studies -- 32
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781848856394
Subjects: Government policy; Mass Media; Drugs and mass media; Substance-Related Disorders; Drug abuse; Public Policy
Description: Explores the mounting problems of drug use in Iran, how treatment became legalized in 1998, how local NGOs offer methadone treatment in Tehran and face continuous political challenges in doing so, and how drug use is critically discussed in Iranian media and cinema.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-284) and index.