Title The drug effect : health, crime and society / edited by Suzanne Fraser & David Moore

Published Port Melbourne, Vic. ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ©2011

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Description x, 249 pages ; 25 cm Contents The social life of smokes: Processes of exchange in a heroin marketplace -- Party animals: The significance of drug practices in the materialisation of urban gay identity -- Pleasure and pain: Representations of illegal drug consumption, addiction and trafficking in music, film and video -- The ontological politics of knowledge production: Qualitative research in the multidisciplinary drug field -- Beyond the 'potsherd': The role of injecting drug use-related stigma in shaping hepatitis C -- Drugs that work: Pharmaceuticals and performance self-management -- From 'magic bullets' to medical maintenance: The changing meanings of medical approaches to drug use in US drug policy -- Pharmacotherapy as social policy, or, the public and private worlds of welfare capitalism -- Court-ordered treatment, neoliberalism and Homo economicus -- Cannabis in cultural and legal limbo: Criminalisation, legalisation and the mixed blessing of medicalisation in the USA -- Drugs, crime and the law in Australia -- Reconceptualising harm reduction in prisons Karen Duke -- Possessed: The unconscious law of drugs Summary Offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together work by respected scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores social and cultural meanings of drug use and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision Analysis Australian Drug dependence Drug effects United States of America Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Drug abuse -- Prevention. Drug abuse -- Social aspects. Drug abuse -- Treatment. Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation. Drug addicts -- Services for. Drug control. Drug traffic. Substance abuse -- Social aspects. Social Problems. Substance-Related Disorders. Drug Users -- psychology. Drug-Seeking Behavior -- drug effects. Drug Users -- psychology. Drug-Seeking Behavior -- drug effects. Social Problems. Substance-Related Disorders. Author Fraser, Suzanne, 1967- editor Moore, David, 1963- editor LC no. 2011410458 ISBN 9780521156059 (paperback)

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