Fiona Measham & Karenza Moore 
Key Concepts in Drugs and Society [EPUB ebook] 

′This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society – locally and globally, historically and today.′


– Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex



′Provides informative, balanced and contextualized insights into the relationships between people and drugs. Whatever your background and however knowledgeable you feel you are about contemporary drug issues, I guarantee that you will learn something unexpected and new from this valuable text.′


– Joanne Neale, Professor of Public Health, Oxford Brookes University



Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people′s social positions influence their involvement in drug use? Insightful and illuminating, this book discusses drugs in social contexts. The authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions.

This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as drug service practitioners such as drug workers, social workers and specialist nurses.

Tabla de materias

PART ONE: TYPES OF DRUGS AND PATTERNS OF USE

What Is a Drug/Medicine?

Prevalence and Trends in Illicit Drug Use

Why Do People Take Drugs?

Addiction

Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco

Polydrug Use/Polysubstance Use

Common Illicit Drugs

Typologies of Drug Use: Use-Misuse-Abuse and Problematic-Recreational Use

Binge-Drinking

Raves and Circuit Parties

Dance Drugs/Club Drugs

Cross-cultural and Traditional Drug Use

Gender, Ethnicity and Social Class

Normalisation

PART TWO: DRUG EFFECTS

Drug Effects: Drug, Set and Setting

Medical Marijuana and Other Therapeutic Uses of Illicit Drugs

Prescribed and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drugs

Novel Psychoactive Substances

The Gateway Hypothesis/Stepping Stone Theory

Drug-related Violence

Drugs and Crime

Drug Risks and Health Harms

Injecting Drug Use

HIV/AIDS and Other Blood-borne Viruses

PART THREE: DRUG POLICY, TREATMENT AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE DRUG PROBLEM

Drug Treatment and Quasi-compulsory Treatment (QCT)

Harm Reduction

Substitute Prescribing

The New Recovery Approach

Prevention: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary

International Drug Control History/Prohibition

Drugs in Sport

Drug Scares and Moral Panics

Drug Dealers

Drug Markets: Difference and Diversity

Drug Trafficking

Crop Eradication, Crop Substitution and Legal Cultivation

War on Drugs

Drug Testing in Schools and Workplaces

Drug Courts

Decriminalisation, Legalisation and Legal Regulation

Liberalisation

Sobre el autor

Professor Karen Mc Elrath is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University.