Drugs and justice : seeking a consistent, coherent, comprehensive view /

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This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Battin, M. Pabst
Other Authors: Dick, David G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Drug control > United States.
Drug abuse > Government policy > United States.
Drugs > Law and legislation > United States.
Legislation, Drug
Illicit Drugs > legislation & jurisprudence
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Toxicomanie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Drug abuse > Government policy
Drug control
Drugs > Law and legislation
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Drugs "across the board"
  • How did it come to be this way?
  • Drug regulatory agencies and the underlying rationales for drug policy
  • Core conceptual problems : addiction
  • Core conceptual problems : harm (and benefit)
  • Dilemmas of drug management and control
  • Toward justice in drug theory, policy, and practice.

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