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Title Drugs : culture, controls, and everyday life / edited by Nigel South
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 1999

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Description xi, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Debating Drugs and Everyday Life: Normalisation, Prohibition and 'Otherness' / Nigel South -- 2. Dances with Drugs: Pop Music, Drugs and Youth Culture / Harry Shapiro -- 3. Drugs and Culture: the Question of Gender / Sheila Henderson -- 4. White Lines: Culture, 'Race' and Drugs / Karim Murji -- 5. Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre: Policy Responses to Drug Misuse / Susanne MacGregor -- 6. Drugs and Policing in Europe: from Low Streets to High Places / Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee -- 7. Controlling Drugs in Sport: Contradictions and Complexity / Ross Coomber -- 8. Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug: Discussing the Legalisation of Illicit Substances / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- 9. Taking Tea with Noel: the Place and Meaning of Drug Use in Everyday Life / Michael Shiner and Tim Newburn
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Drug abuse.
Drug addiction.
Drug utilization.
Drugs -- Social aspects.
Author South, Nigel.
LC no. 98061541
ISBN 0761952349
0761952357 (paperback)