Voluntary action and illegal drugs
Subtitle: health and society in Britain since the 1960s
By: Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge.
Contributors: Berridge, Virginia.
Series: Science, technology and medicine in modern history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780230521407
Subjects: Drug addiction -- Treatment -- Great Britain -- History; Drug addicts -- Great Britain -- Hsitory; Voluntarism -- Great Britain -- History
Description: "Through a study of the voluntary activity around illegal drug use since the 1960s, this book explores wider issues in the changing relationship between the state and the individual in the making, provision and delivery of public services, and addresses the history of key issues in the development of contemporary health and social policy"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * PART I: 1960s-1970s * The 'Old': Self-help, Phoenix House and the Rehabilitation of Drug Users * The 'New'? New Social Movements and Release * Drug Voluntary Organisations and the State in the 1960s and 1970s * PART II: 1980s * Rolling Back the State? The Central Funding Initiative for Drug Services * Activism and Health: The Impact of AIDS * PART III: 1990s-2000s; title: * Business Models or the Revival of the State? * Users: Service Users and the Drug User Movement; title: * Conclusion * Bibliography.