Two Worlds Of Drug Consumption In Late Modern Societies

Author : Jacek Moskalewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351877121

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Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies reports the findings of an empirical study of drug users in London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw, European cities representative of a wide range of drug problems and public policies. The innovative study reconceives the standard distinctions between 'hard-core' and 'recreational' drug users in terms of their social position. The authors argue that this is closely related to consumption patterns rather than drug choice, and reveals that 2 relatively homogenous drug worlds exist within each of the study sites. This leads to the development of diverging drug markets; a friendly market for the integrated consumer, and a highly commercialized one for the marginalized customer, where low quality goods are sold at a higher price. These findings have significant implications for academics and professionals working in health, psychology and urban studies.

Author : Jacek Moskalewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351877138

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Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies by Jacek Moskalewicz Pdf

Two Worlds of Drug Consumption in Late Modern Societies reports the findings of an empirical study of drug users in London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw, European cities representative of a wide range of drug problems and public policies. The innovative study reconceives the standard distinctions between 'hard-core' and 'recreational' drug users in terms of their social position. The authors argue that this is closely related to consumption patterns rather than drug choice, and reveals that 2 relatively homogenous drug worlds exist within each of the study sites. This leads to the development of diverging drug markets; a friendly market for the integrated consumer, and a highly commercialized one for the marginalized customer, where low quality goods are sold at a higher price. These findings have significant implications for academics and professionals working in health, psychology and urban studies.

Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210543033

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World Drug Report 2010 by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Pdf

In order to prepare the World Drug Report, UNODC relies on Member States to provide data, primarily through the Annual Reports Questionnaire (ARQ). The ARQ was distributed to 192 Member States, and UNODC received 110 replies to the drug abuse section and 114 replies to the illicit supply of drugs section from Member States (and territories). In general, most countries’ ability to provide information on illicit drug supply is significantly better than their ability to provide demand-related data. Despite commendable progress, for example in the area of prevalence estimates, far more remains to be done to provide a solid, reliable basis for trend and policy analysis. The report includes in-depth and cross-sectoral analyses of transnational drug markets (chapter 1) as well as the latest statistical data and trends regarding the world drug situation (chapter 2). This year, the report also discusses the impact of transnational drug trafficking on transit countries (chapter 3).

Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210040273

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World Drug Report 2010 (Rus Language) by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Pdf

In order to prepare the World Drug Report, UNODC relies on Member States to provide data, primarily through the Annual Reports Questionnaire (ARQ). The ARQ was distributed to 192 Member States, and UNODC received 110 replies to the drug abuse section and 114 replies to the illicit supply of drugs section from Member States (and territories). In general, most countries’ ability to provide information on illicit drug supply is significantly better than their ability to provide demand-related data. Despite commendable progress, for example in the area of prevalence estimates, far more remains to be done to provide a solid, reliable basis for trend and policy analysis. The report includes in-depth and cross-sectoral analyses of transnational drug markets (chapter 1) as well as the latest statistical data and trends regarding the world drug situation (chapter 2). This year, the report also discusses the impact of transnational drug trafficking on transit countries (chapter 3).

Author : Julie Tieberghien
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315472362

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Change or Continuity in Drug Policy by Julie Tieberghien Pdf

While evidence-based policy is an emerging rhetoric of the desire by and for governments to develop policies based on the best available evidence, drug policy is an area where particular challenges abound. This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the contours of drug policy development through the consideration of the particular roles of science, media, and interest groups. Using Belgium as the primary case-study, supplemented by insights gathered from other countries, the author contributes to a richer understanding of the science-policy nexus in the messy, real-world complexities of drug policy. Change or Continuity in Drug Policy: The Roles of Science, Media, and Interest Groups is the first book to bring together policy and media theories, knowledge utilisation models, and public scholarship literature. As such, the book provides unique insights relevant to aspects of change or continuity in drug policies in Europe and beyond. This book will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to academics, practitioners and policymakers with interest in the science-policy nexus with a particular focus on the drug policy domain.

Author : Matilda Hellman,Virginia Berridge,Karen Duke,Alex Mold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198737797

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Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Across Time and Place by Matilda Hellman,Virginia Berridge,Karen Duke,Alex Mold Pdf

This volume examines the temporal and spatial variances of addiction behaviours in European societies, illustrates the intertwining of regional and global trends in behaviours, and sets out a framework for understanding the roles played by different social actors.

Author : Geoffrey Hunt,Tamar M. J. Antin,Vibeke Asmussen Frank
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429603426

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Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication by Geoffrey Hunt,Tamar M. J. Antin,Vibeke Asmussen Frank Pdf

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication. The Handbook is divided into 34 chapters across eight thematic sections covering a wide range of issues, including the meanings of intoxicants; the social life of intoxicants; intoxication settings; intoxication practices; alternative approaches to the study of intoxication; scapegoated intoxicants; discourses shaping intoxication; and changing notions of excess. It explores a range of different intoxicants, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and legal and illicit drugs, including amphetamine, cannabis, ecstasy, khat, methadone, and opiates. Chapter length case studies explore these intoxicants in a variety of countries, including the USA, the UK, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Singapore, and Sweden, across a broad timespan covering the nineteenth century to the present day. This wide-ranging Handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students, and instructors within the humanities and social sciences with an interest in a wide range of different intoxicants and different intoxication practices. Chapters 15 and 31 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Dominic Corva,Joshua S. Meisel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000392609

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The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research by Dominic Corva,Joshua S. Meisel Pdf

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research. The Routledge Handbook of Post-Prohibition Cannabis Research invites readers to explore new landscapes of cannabis research under conditions of legalization with, not after, prohibition: "post-prohibition." The chapters are organized into five multidisciplinary sections: Governance, Public Health, Markets and Society, Ecology and the Environment, and Culture and Social Change. Case studies from the United States, Uruguay, Morocco, and the United Kingdom show readers alternative ways of thinking about human–cannabis relationships that move beyond questions of legality and illegality. Representing a cross-section of cannabis scholarship, the contributors provide readers with critical perspectives on legalization that are not based upon orthodoxies of prohibition. While legalization signals a global shift in the legitimacy of cannabis research, this collection identifies openings for academics, policy makers, and the public interested in ending the drug war, as well as a way to address broader social problems evident in the age of neoliberal governance within which prohibition has been entangled.

Author : United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210039925

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Informe mundial sobre las drogas 2010 by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Pdf

Para preparar dicho Informe Mundial sobre las Drogas, la UNODC depende de los datos que los Estados Miembros proporcionan, fundamentalmente mediante los cuestionarios para los informes anuales. Los cuestionarios se distribuyeron a 192 Estados Miembros y la UNODC recibió de estos Estados Miembros (y territorios) 110 respuestas a la sección sobre el consumo ilícito y 114 respuestas a la sección sobre la oferta ilícita de drogas. Los Estados Miembros suelen estar en condiciones mucho mejores de proporcionar información sobre la oferta ilícita de drogas que sobre la demanda. Pese a un meritorio avance, por ejemplo, en materia de estimaciones de la prevalencia, queda mucho por hacer para poder contar con una base sólida y fiable para un análisis de las tendencias y las políticas. El Informe incluye análisis en profundidad e intersectorial de los mercados transnacionales de drogas (capítulo 1), así como los últimos datos y tendencias estadísticas sobre la situación mundial de las drogas (capítulo 2). Este año se analiza también en el Informe la repercusión del tráfico transnacional ilícito en los países de tránsito (capítulo 3).

Author : Alex Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136918209

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Drugs, Crime and Public Health by Alex Stevens Pdf

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries - it discusses theoretical perspectives and provides new empirical evidence which challenges prevalent ways of thinking about illicit drugs. It argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place, a context which it shares with other problems of crime and public health. The book demonstrates the social and spatial overlap of these problems, examining the focus of contemporary drug policy on crime reduction. This focus, Alex Stevens contends, has made it less, rather than more, likely that long-term solutions will be produced for drugs, crime and health inequalities. And he concludes, through examining competing visions for the future of drug policy, with an argument for social solutions to these social problems.

Author : Geoffrey Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317147725

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Drugs and Culture by Geoffrey Hunt Pdf

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 phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use. Adopting approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, political science and geopolitics to challenge the prevailing pathologization and criminalization of drug use, this book provides international and comparative perspectives on drug research, based on the latest research in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong.

Author : Jennifer Ward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000151824

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Flashback by Jennifer Ward Pdf

This book is a detailed and close examination of the rave club drugs market as it took place in nightclubs, dance parties, pubs and bars and among friendship networks in London, in the mid to late 1990s. It focuses on the organizational features of drugs purchasing and selling and differentiates anonymous drugs trading in public nightclub settings, from selling among extended networks of friends and others. The stories of different people and friendship groups illustrate the varied drug selling roles and highlight the enterprise and entrepreneurship supporting their involvement. Told from the perspective of author's own membership in this night-time leisure culture, and embracing the disciplines of urban sociology and cultural criminology, this book contributes to our knowledge of recreational drugs markets and night-time leisure cultures. It will be of interest to students and academics with interests in these fields, as well as the many other people whose lives became a part of this vibrant leisure scene.

Author : Susan C. Boyd,Connie I. Carter,Donald MacPherson
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552668627

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More Harm Than Good by Susan C. Boyd,Connie I. Carter,Donald MacPherson Pdf

In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights not only from individuals who are on the front lines of drug policy in Canada — treatment and service workers — but also from those who live with the consequences of that policy on a daily basis — people who use criminalized drugs. Finally, the authors propose realistic alternatives to today’s failed policy approach. “Your book really expanded thinking and understanding and had a big influence on students critical and reflective thought. Readings sparked rich conversations about their own hopes and wishes for the field, broader social and political responses and the impact on youth and families affected by substances.” - Stephanie McCune, University of Victoria Please note: an error occurred with the printing of this book, and one of the sidebars was not printed. It is available to download here. We sincerely apologize for this oversight.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9211482569

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World Drug Report 2010 by Anonim Pdf

Opens with a discussion of the markets for heroin, cocaine, and amphetamine-type stimulants. Follows with statistics and statistical trends for all major drug categories. Includes the latest information on drug production, seizures and consumption, as well as a discussion on the relationship between drug trafficking and instability.

Author : European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Amphetamine abuse
ISBN : 9291684325

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Annual Report by European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction Pdf