Research Catalog

Title

Drug policy and the public good / Thomas Babor ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Babor, Thomas

Description

xii, 338 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Drug control
• Substance abuse > Government policy
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Drug and Narcotic Control
• Public Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Framing the issues -- Matters of substance -- The international dimensions of drug use -- Harms associated with illicit drug use -- Illegal markets : the economics of drug distribution and social harm -- The legal market : prescription and diversion of psychopharmaceuticals -- Strategies and interventions to reduce drug use and related harm : section overview -- Preventing illicit drug use by young people -- Health and social services for drug users -- Supply control -- Criminalization and decriminalization of drug use or possession -- Prescription regimes and other measures to control misuse of psychopharmaceuticals -- Drug policy and control at the international level -- The variety of national drug policies -- Health and social services for drug users : systems issues -- Summary and conclusions.

ISBN

• 9780199557127 (alk. paper)
• 0199557128 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009039607

OCLC

444336786

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library