Governing the heroin trade
Subtitle: from treaties to treatment
By: by Melissa Bull.
Series: Law, ethics and governance
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780754671213
Subjects: Heroin industry -- History; Opium trade -- History; Drug control -- International cooperation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of control; title: Introduction; title: The prehistory of regulation; title: Opium as an everyday commodity; title: Cultivating opium; title: Popular use of opium; title: Finding questions where others had located answers; title: Regulating opium; title: The conditions of possibility for the regulation of opiates; title: The health and wellbeing of the population; title: Life, longevity and opium; title: The public hygiene movement; title: Public health, professionalism and reform; title: Vital statistics and the science of government; title: Addiction as disease; title: Variations on a theme; title: Expertise as vocation; title: Opium and cultural conciousness; title: Conculsion; title: Preserving the nation state; title: Reason of state; title: The degeneration of the dynasty; title: Bring China in; title: The international system of control; title: Prohibition in defence of the realm; title: The American case: from Harrison to McCarthy; title: The cold war on drugs; title: Contemporary rationalties of regulation: the international treaties; title: Conclusion; title: An ungoverned domain; title: The system of international control; title: The early treaties; title: Tne Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (SCONDs), 1961; title: The scond and the constitution of a governable domain; title: Unplanned outcomes and unintended consequences: the illicit supply as an ungoverned domain?; title: Taming the ungoverned domain: the United Nations Convention on the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, 1988; title: Conclusion; title: Supply in demand; title: Making up methadone maintenance treatment; title: Methadone as a treatment for addiction; title: Addiction as a metabolic disease?; title: Methadone maintenance in Australia; title: Governing methadone; title: Supply in demand; title: Prescribing methadone; title: Governing through methadone; title: Methadone and the panopticon; title: Liberating addiction; title: Freedom and constraint; title: From bad habits to better habits; title: Conclusion; title: Security and freedom: rethinking drug control; title: Changing horizons of the problem of herion; title: References.