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Subject(s)

• Psychotropic drugs—Social aspects [Browse]
• Drug abuse [Browse]

Author

• McElrath, Karen, 1959- [Browse]
• Measham, Fiona, 1963- [Browse]
• Moore, Karenza [Browse]

Series

SAGE key concepts. [More in this series]

Summary note

How do we understand drug use? How are drugs related to our social worlds? How should drug use be understood, approached and dealt with? Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. Powerful and engaging, this book discusses main questions within the field of psychoactive drugs research, such as: Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people's social positions influence their individual involvement in drug use? This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as drug service practitioners such as drug workers, social workers and specialist nurses.

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Section I Types of drugs and patterns of use
• What Is a drug/medicine?
• Prevalence and trends in illicit drug use
• Why do people take drugs?
• Addiction
• Legal drugs : Alcohol and tobacco
• Polydrug Use/polysubstance use
• Common illicit drugs
• Typologies of drug use : Use--misuse--abuse and problematic--recreational use
• Binge-drinking
• Raves and circuit parties
• Dance drugs/club drugs
• Cross-cultural and Traditional Drug Use
• Gender, ethnicity and social class
• Normalisation
• Section II Drug Effects
• Drug effects : drug, set and setting
• Medical marijuana and other therapeutic uses of illicit Drugs
• Prescribed and Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs
• Novel psychoactive substances
• Gateway hypothesis/stepping stone theory
• Drug-related violence
• Drugs and crime
• Drug risks and health harms
• Injecting drug use
• HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne viruses
• Section III Drug policy, treatment and perceptions of the drug problem
• Drug treatment and Quasi-compulsory treatment
• Harm reduction
• Substitute prescribing
• New recovery approach
• Prevention : Primary, secondary and tertiary
• International drug control history/prohibition
• Drugs in sport
• Drug scares and moral panics
• Drug dealers
• Drug markets : Difference and diversity
• Drug trafficking
• Crop eradication, crop substitution and legal cultivation
• War on drugs
• Drug testing in schools and workplaces
• Drug courts
• Decriminalisation, Legalisation and Legal Regulation
• Liberalisation.

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ISBN

• 1-4462-9136-7
• 1-5264-0167-3
• 1-84787-485-1

LCCN

2012945625

OCLC

• 1017722175
• 1187212530

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