| Description |
xii, 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Historical perspectives of drug use in Asia / Gary Reid, Nick Crofts -- Harm reduction is good public health / David Jacka, S.S. Lee, Nick Crofts -- Human rights and drug policy / Joanne Csete, Fifa Rahman -- Drug users and imprisonment / Kate Dolan, Ana Rodas -- Law enforcement and drug policy in Southeast Asia / Nick Crofts, Geoff Monaghan, Steve James, Nicole Turner, Mohd Zaman Khan -- Effective development and effective drug control are interdependent : the example of Southeast Asia / Priya Mannava, Sasha Zegenhagen, Nick Crofts, Nicholas Thomson -- Illicit drug policy in SE Asia - the users' perspective / Jimmy Dorabjee, Mohamad Firdaus Zakaria, Dean Lewis -- Harm reduction : the Islamic perspective / Faisal Ibrahim -- HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among people who inject drugs in East and Southeast Asia / Don des Jarlais, Holly Hagan, Jonathan Feelemyer, Heidi Bramson -- Unpacking compulsory 'rehabilitation' in Asia : problems and possible solutions / Simon Baldwin, Thu Vuong -- Responding to ATS use in East and Southeast Asia / Rebecca McKetin, Jih-Heng Li -- Case study no. 1. Harm reduction and drug policy in Thailand - one step forward, two steps back / Karyn Kaplan, Pascal Tanguay -- Case study no. 2. Drug policy in Taiwan / Jih-Heng Li -- Case study no. 3. Emerging from a black box : drug policymaking in Vietnam / Simon Baldwin -- Case study no. 4. Drug policy in China / Susan Trevaskes -- Case study no. 5. Compulsory drug rehabilitation in China / Sarah Biddulph -- Alternatives to criminal justice : drug courts, drug diversion, and decriminalisation / Fifa Rahman -- Capital punishment for drug offences / Fifa Rahman -- Drug treatment across Asia / B. Vicknasingam, Marek Chawarski, Richard Schottenfeld -- The way forward - rethinking the war on drugs / Alex Wodak |
| Summary |
This book look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, with perspectives on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, this book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent policy shifts, especially harm-reduction response to the devastating drug-associated HIV epidemics. It explores further necessary reform, especially in regard to the abysmally inhuman current emphasis on detention and the death penalty for drug offenses, and presents the most recent evidence on effective and humane approaches to drug treatments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- Southeast Asia.
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Drug abuse -- East Asia.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- Southeast Asia.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- East Asia.
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Drug control -- East Asia.
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Drug control -- Southeast Asia.
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Legislation, Drug.
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Health Care Reform.
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| SUBJECT |
Asia, Southeastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001210 |
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Far East. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005202 |
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Asia, Southeastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001210 |
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Far East. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005202 |
| Author |
Rahman, Fifa, 1986-
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Crofts, Nick.
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| LC no. |
2013020987 |
| ISBN |
9780739180372 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780739184929 (paper.) (alkaline paper) |
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