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Title Drugs and culture : knowledge, consumption, and policy / edited by Geoffrey Hunt, Maitena Milhet, Henri Bergeron
Published Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. 1. Knowledge : science, medicine, and discourses on drugs -- pt. 2. Consumption : cultures of drug use -- pt. 3. Policy or politics? The cultural dynamics of public responses
Summary Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Drugs -- Social aspects
Drug abuse.
Drugs of abuse.
Substance abuse.
Drug addiction.
drug addiction.
drug abuse.
substance abuse.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Drug addiction
Drug abuse
Drugs of abuse
Drugs -- Social aspects
Substance abuse
Form Electronic book
Author Hunt, Geoffrey, 1947-
Milhet, Maitena.
Bergeron, Henri.
LC no. 2010048568
ISBN 9781409405443
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