This scholarly examination of the worldwide web of narcotics today provides students, social workers, health providers, law enforcement officers and policy makers with an up-to-date, overall exploration of the world of drugs. Vast resources are pumped into the 'war on drugs'. Bu…
'The Drug Effect' offers new perspectives on debates in the field of drug use. Written by scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores the social and cultural meanings of drug use and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks related to drug policy.
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies, regulations, taxes, and prohibitions, designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side effects: most prominently the developm…
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the developm…
