Verbreiteter Drogenkonsum gehört in das populäre und wissenschaftliche Bild der Weimarer Republik: Es heißt, in den 1920er Jahren habe eine 'Drogenwelle' Deutschland überrollt. Annika Hoffmann zeigt, wie sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die Deutung des nicht-medizinischen Kon…
Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be informed by careful ethical analyses of the personal and social implications. Scientists and …
"There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested an…
"There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested an…
The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community.
"In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? P…
"The Cult of Pharmacology tells the dramatic story of how, as one legal drug after another fell from grace, new pharmaceutical substances took their place. Whether Valium or OxyContin at the pharmacy, cocaine or meth purchased on the street, or alcohol and tobacco from the corne…