| Description |
ix, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: IMAGE AND USAGE -- Poets and Other People -- Social Attitudes and Drug Laws -- One Hundred Years of Solicitude -- 1 A TENTACLE OF THE OCTOPUS -- The Chinese and the Afghan -- Introducing Mr. Sin: Chinese Opium Smoking and Australians' Fears -- Voices of Protest -- Righteousness and Revenue: Political Responses up to 1893 -- 'They all go to the Chinaman': Aboriginal Opium -- Laws and the Chinese -- 2 THE CRUSADES -- Federation and Hesitation 1901-1905 -- The Social Context: Health and the Law -- 'The Chinese themselves': The Crusading Quong Tart -- Other Battles: Alcohol and Patent Medicines -- The Political Capitulation: Opium Prohibition -- 1905-1908 -- 3 BAD HABITS -- The Expansion of Drug Laws and the Beginning of international Control -- 'Funny Business in Bendigo': The Habit of Law-Making 1913-1920 -- International Influences: The Habit of Conformity 1919-1931 -- The Entrenchment of Policy -- 4 THE AGE OF THE EXPERT -- The New Priests -- The Exclusion of 'Patent Medicines' -- The Subordination of Pharmacy 1900-1920: -- Sovereignty -- The New South Wales Pharmacy Board 1923-1934: -- Autonomy -- New Rivalries -- 5 ILLNESS AND VICE -- 'For Information': The Cocaine 'Crisis' 1923-1928 -- Vice: Legal Sovereignty and Illegal Use in the late 1920s -- Illness: Medical Sovereignty and Non-Medical Use in the Late 1920s -- The Dichotomy of Drug Use: The 'British System' in Australia 1922-1939 -- The Dichotomy of Drug Use: The Case of Heroin 1931-1936 -- 6 CONVENTIONAL WISDOM -- The World at War -- International influence and the Expansion of Controlled Drugs: Pethidine 1946-1948 -- The Cold War -- US and International Influences: The Prohibition of Heroin 1949-1955 -- Drug Use in the Late 1950s -- The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 -- 7 THE BALANCE OF POWER -- The Beginnings of Change: NSW and Victorian Poisons Acts 1962-1966 -- The Changing Face of Illegal Drug Use -- The Politicisation of Drugs from 1966 -- Bureaucratic Conflict and Invasion 1966-1969 -- The Changing Balance of Power -- 8 SHADOWS OF THE PAST -- Meta-Law in Australian Drug Reforms 1970-1972 -- The Politics of Cannabis 1970-1976 -- Cedar Bay -- A New Political Consensus -- The Age of Royal Commissions 1977-1980 -- A New Bureaucratic Consensus -- 9 A THOROUGHLY MODERN MELEE -- Introducing Mr. Big: The Changing Face of Australians' Fears -- A Split Personality? -- Labor in Power 1983-1985 - Dr. Jekyll: Legislative Reform in South Australia 1984-1986 - Mr. Hyde: Legislative Reform in Queensland 1986 -- CONCLUSION: VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS? -- The Web of the Law -- Clearing the Cobwebs -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY - INDEX |
| Analysis |
Australia |
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Drug abuse Control History |
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Drug use and abuse |
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Federal issue |
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History |
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Social change |
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State issue |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Drug abuse -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Drug abuse -- Australia -- History.
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Drug abuse -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History.
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Drug abuse -- Australia.
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Drugs of abuse -- Law and legislation -- Australia -- History -- Criminal provisions.
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Drugs -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
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Drugs -- Australia.
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| LC no. |
93217185 |
| ISBN |
0195535316 |
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