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Author: Martin Plant Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199544794 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 255
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Humans have been using psychoactive (mind-altering) drugs since ancient times, and barely a day goes by without a drug related issue reaching the headlines. This book provides an accessible and lucid introduction to some of the main health and social issues related to illicit drugs and their use.
Author: Martin Plant Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199544794 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Humans have been using psychoactive (mind-altering) drugs since ancient times, and barely a day goes by without a drug related issue reaching the headlines. This book provides an accessible and lucid introduction to some of the main health and social issues related to illicit drugs and their use.
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Publisher: ISBN: 9781854334688 Category : Crisis intervention (Mental health services) Languages : en Pages : 0
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Sets out clear recommendations, based on the best available evidence, for healthcare staff on how to work with people who misuse drugs (specifically opioids, stimulants and cannabis) to significantly improve their treatment and care.
Author: Robert McLean Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030333620 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 95
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This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain at both sites. The authors conducted interviews with practitioners, offenders, ex-offenders and those members of the general public most effected by organised crime. The research explores how drug markets have continued to evolve, accumulating in the phenomenon that is county lines. It explores how such behavior has gradually become ever more intertwined with other forms of organised criminal activity. Useful for researchers, policy makers, and law enforcement officials, this brief recommends a rethinking of current reactive policing strategies.
Author: A. Mold Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230274692 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 249
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A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments in the relationship between the state and civil society are examined.
Author: Max Daly Publisher: Windmill Books ISBN: 9780099538035 Category : Drug abuse Languages : en Pages : 0
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DRUG ADDICTION & SUBSTANCE ABUSE. Everyone thinks they know what the drug market looks like - from politicians to policemen to parents. But do they really? Looking at the dealers, the users, the police and the politicians, Narcomania charts how consumption and markets have fragmented and changed over the last decade; follows the money to reveal where Britain's licit and illicit economies overlap; explains where each of the major recreational drugs comes from; and maps which drugs are popular in different parts of the country. It will explode many of the myths and misconceptions about drug use, and tap into fraught debates about how politicians, parents and police should respond. In the wake of the internet boom, globalisation and a decade of decadence, Britain sits at a crossroads in the legalisation-versus-intolerance debate.
Author: Peter Hitchens Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1441197168 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 305
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Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious 'war on drugs' since 1971, when a Tory government adopted a Labour plan to implement the revolutionary Wootton report. This gave cannabis, the most widely used illegal substance, a special legal status as a supposedly 'soft' drug (in fact, Hitchens argues, it is at least as dangerous as heroin and cocaine because of the threat it poses to mental health). It began a progressive reduction of penalties for possession, and effectively disarmed the police. This process still continues, behind a screen of falsely 'tough' rhetoric from politicians. Far from there being a 'war on drugs', there has been a covert surrender to drugs, concealed behind an official obeisance to international treaty obligations. To all intents and purposes, cannabis is legal in Britain, and other major drugs are not far behind. In The War We Never Fought, Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the government's true attitude, and the increasing recruitment of the police and courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives, and contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever and whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britain's drug policy, it is not 'prohibition' or a 'war on drugs', for neither exists.
Author: Mark Simpson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137124458 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 216
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Drawing on well-respected authors in the field, this textbook is at the cutting edge of current debates about illicit drug use. Comprehensive and straightforward, it examines the major theoretical questions, themes and policy debates. Contains study exercises to highlight important points to students.
Author: Royal College of Physicians of London. Tobacco Advisory Group Publisher: Royal College of Physicians ISBN: 9781860161223 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 216
Author: Marek Kohn Publisher: Granta Books ISBN: 1847088864 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
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This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death of Billie Carleton, a West End musical actress, in 1918. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. They were eventually identified as the villains of the affair and invested with a highly charged sexual menace. Around them, in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue, there swirled a raffish group of seedy and entitled hedonists. Britain was horrified and fascinated, and so the drug problem was born amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.
Author: Martin Plant
Author: Martin Plant
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
Author: Robert McLean
Author: A. Mold
Author: Max Daly
Author: Peter Hitchens
Author: Mark Simpson
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Author: Royal College of Physicians of London. Tobacco Advisory Group
Author: Marek Kohn