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Key concepts in drugs and society /
"Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understand...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
SAGE,
2013.
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| Colección: | SAGE key concepts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- Drug policy, treatment and perceptions of the drug problem. Drug treatment and quasi-compulsory treatment ; 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.