Research Catalog

Title

Drugs and drug use in society : a critical reader / edited by Ross Coomber.

Publication

Dartford, Kent, U.K. : Greenwich University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coomber, Ross.

Description

xi, 415 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Greenwich readers ; 1

Uniform Title

Greenwich readers ; 1.

Subject

• Drug Information Services [MESH]
• Drug abuse
• Drug utilization
• Drugs [MESH]
• Substance-Related Disorders [MESH]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prominent drugs and their effects. Crack in Liverpool / Russell Newcombe and Lyn Matthews -- What drugs do to users / Richard Miller --The effects of drugs / Michael Gossop -- The nature of addiction-not a simple issue. Is alcoholism a disease? / Nick Heather and Ian Robertson -- Drug dependence: myth or motive? / John Falk -- Excessive gambling / Jim Orford -- Dependence and society / Robin Room -- Keeping control of drugs and drug users. The dynamics of narcotics control / David Musto -- The drug takers 1920-1970 / Philip Bean -- The punishment illusion: your money and your life / N. Dorn, K. Murji and N. South
• Treatment and rehabilitation. Developing treatment policies-care versus control / Gerry Stimson and Edna Oppenheimer -- Aids and British drug policy: history repeats itself ...? / Virginia Berridge -- The smoking option / John Marks, Andrew Palombella and Russell Newcombe --Drugs Education. Looking for effective drug education programmes: fifteen years' exploration of the effects of different drug education programmes / Willy F.M. De Haes -- Drug education to school children: does it really work? / Harith Swadi and Harry Zeitlin -- Willy Whizz / S.S.H.A. --Paranoia and the don't care bears / Lifeline -- High in the 'E' stand / Lifeline -- Moral panics, drugs and drug use.
• The sociology of moral panics: toward a new synthesis / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- A siamese cat in the council flat / Marek Kohn -- The media press the panic button / Alex Corina -- The Problem Today. Beyound Opiates ... and into the '90s / Mark Gilman -- Where does all the snow go?-the prevalence adnd pattern of cocaine and crack use in Britain / Harry Shapiro -- Drugs and crime. Drugs crime and violence / Robert Power --Summary thoughts about drugs and violence / James J. Collins -- Drugs and predatory crime / Jan M. Chaiken and Marcia R. Chaiken
• The war on drugs-can it be won? Can a war on drugs succeed? / Gerry Stimson -- International law enforcement: the futile quest for control of coca and cocaine at the source / Steven Wisotsky -- Full tilt towards a no-win 'Vietman' war on drugs / Tim Malyon -- The legalisation of drugs? Narcotics: the problem and the solution / E.J. Mishan --Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson -- The ethics of addiction / Thomas S. Szasz -- Drugs in sport: moral dilemmas. Drugs in sport: rhetroic or pragmatism / Ross Coomber -- A question of drugs / Ellis Cashmore.

ISBN

1874529302

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library