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Paperback / softback. New. Current approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago; the concepts of addiction, on the one hand, and drug control on the other, having imposed themselves as the unquestionable central notions surrounding drug issues and discourses. Pathologization and criminalization are the dominant perspectives on psychoactive drugs, and it is difficult to describe drug consumption in any terms other than those of medicine, or to conceive of regulation except in terms of control and eradication. Drugs and Culture presents other voices and understandings of drug issues, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these…
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Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy Paperback - 2016
by Geoffrey Hunt; Maitena Milhet (Editor)
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- Title Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy
- Author Geoffrey Hunt; Maitena Milhet (Editor)
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- Pages 324
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2016
- ISBN 9781138274426 / 1138274429
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- Interdisciplinary Studies: Policy Studies
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.1
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