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Drugs and Justice - Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View (Paperback)
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Drugs and Justice - Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View (Paperback)
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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 caffeine; religious-use,
sports enhancement; and of course illegal street drugs like cocaine
and marijuana. Our thinking and policies varies wildly from one to
the other, with inconsistencies that derive more from cultural and
social values than from medical or scientific facts. Penalties
exist for steroid use, while herbal remedies or cold medication are
legal. Native Americans may legally use peyote, but others may not.
Penalties may vary for using different forms of the same drug, such
as crack vs. powder cocaine. Herbal remedies are unregulated by the
FDA; but medical marijuana is illegal in most states. Battin and
her contributors lay a foundation for a wiser drug policy by
promoting consistency and coherency in the discussion of drug
issues and by encouraging a unique dialogue across disciplines. The
contributors are an interdisciplinary group of scholars mostly
based at the University of Utah, and include a pharmacologist, a
psychiatrist, a toxicologist, a trial court judge, a law professor,
an attorney, a diatary specialist, a physician, a health expert on
substance abuse, and Battin herself who is a philosopher. They
consider questions like the historical development of current
policy and the rationales for it; scientific views on how drugs
actually cause harm; how to define the key notions of harm and
addiction; and ways in which drug policy can be made more
consistent. They conclude with an examination of the implications
of a consistent policy for various disciplines and society
generally. The book is written accessibly with little need for
expert knowledge, and will appeal to a diverse audience of
philosophers, bioethicists, clinicians, policy makers, law
enforcement, legal scholars and practitioners, social workers, and
general readers, as well as to students in areas like pharmacy,
medicine, law, nursing, sociology, social work, psychology, and
bioethics.
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