Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life

This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of normalization′ of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; drugs′ and users′ as other′ or dangerous′; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of race′ and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.

Author: Nigel South
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 02/23/1999
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.44h x 5.94w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780761952350

About the Author
South, Nigel: - Nigel South is a Reader in sociology at the University of essex. He has been a prolific and penetrating contributor to the debate on drugs and drug-users.

CONTRIBUTORS

Ross Coomber University of Greenwich

Nicholas Dorn Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence

Sheila Henderson

Maggy Lee University of Essex

Susanne MacGregor Middlesex University

Karim Murji Roehampton Institute, London

Tim Newburn University of London

Vincenzo Ruggiero University of London

Harry Shapiro Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence

Michael Shiner University of London

Nigel South University of Essex

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