The control of drugs and drug users : reason or reaction?, edited by Ross Coomber

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The control of drugs and drug users : reason or reaction?, edited by Ross Coomber

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Title remainder

reason or reaction?

Statement of responsibility

edited by Ross Coomber

Instantiates

• The control of drugs and drug users : reason or reaction?

Publication

• Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1998

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

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

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ocm38724367

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23 cm.

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xxv, 265 pages

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9789057020421

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99521801

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rdamedia

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• n

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u39393

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• (Sirsi) o38724367
• (OCoLC)38724367