Illicit drugs: use and control
The second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address: Class, gender and race, The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution, Britain's drug use within a global context. This accessible book, with its inclusion of new pedagogical features, will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the area of drugs and society.
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- Full title :Illicit drugs : use and control / by Adrian Barton.
Summary
The second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address: Class, gender and race, The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution, Britain's drug use within a global context. This accessible book, with its inclusion of new pedagogical features, will be essential reading for students and researchers working in the area of drugs and society.
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 195 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203879917, 0203879910, 9781134007257, 1134007256, 9781134007202, 1134007205, 9781134007240, 1134007248
- oclc:ocn730501933
- LC Classification:HV5840.G7
- Dewey Decimal:362.290941
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements -- British society and illicit drug use: historical perspectives -- Measuring the "problem" : drug use in contemporary Britain -- The British state's legal and medical responses to illicit drug use -- Illicit drug use : class, gender and ethnicity -- Illicit drugs : growth and production -- The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution -- Illicit drugs : markets and market focus -- Illicit drugs : paying for the goods and assessing the costs -- Policing the problem : current trends in u.k. drug policy -- Comparing british drug policy.
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