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In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged
as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates,
supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an
approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead
for governments to control consumption across whole populations
through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail
availability and marketing regulations. Alcohol, Power and Public
Health explores the emergence of the public health perspective on
alcohol policy in Europe, the strategies alcohol control policy
advocates have adopted, and the challenges they have faced in the
political context of both individual states and the European Union.
The book provides a historical perspective on the development of
alcohol policy in Europe using four case studies - Denmark,
England, Scotland and Ireland. It explores the relationship between
evidence, values and power in a key area of political
decision-making and considers what conditions create - or prevent -
policy change. The case studies raise questions as to who sets
policy agendas, how social problems are framed and defined, and how
governments can balance public health promotion against both
commercial interests and established cultural practices. This book
will be of interest to academics and researchers in policy studies,
public health, social science, and European Union studies.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol,
tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and
spaces as 'dangerous' and in influencing the nature of formal
responses to the perceived threat. Taking a historical and
cross-national perspective, it explores how such groups and spaces
are defined and bounded as well as the processes by which they come
to be seen as 'risky'. It discusses how issues of perceived danger
highlight questions of control and the management of behaviours,
people and environments, and it pays attention to the way in which
sanctions and regulations have been implemented in a variety of
often inconsistent ways that frequently impact differently on
different sections of the population. Bringing together a range of
case studies drawn from different countries and across different
periods of time, the chapters collected here illustrate issues of
marginalisation, stigmatisation, human rights and social
expectations. It is of interest to a diverse audience of
historians, philosophers, human geographers, anthropologists,
sociologists and criminologists interested in substance use and
misuse, deviance, risk and power among other topics.
"Growing up with risk" provides a critical analysis of ways in
which risk assessment and management - now a pervasive element of
contemporary policy and professional practice - are defined and
applied in policy, theory and practice in relation to children and
young people. Drawing on conceptual frameworks from across the
social sciences, the book examines contrasting perspectives on risk
that occur in different policy domains and professional and lay
discourses, discussing the dilemmas of response that arise from
these sometimes contested viewpoints - from playground safety to
risks associated with youthful substance use. The contributors
address issues of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status which
impact on definitions and responses to risk, and consider related
concepts, such as 'risk-resilience', care-control' and
'dependence-autonomy'. Written in an accessible manner, each
chapter provides a specific policy case study to illustrate the
cross-cutting themes and issues that will make it a key text for
researchers and students. It also offers policy makers and
practitioners a valuable insight into the complexities of balancing
responsibility for protecting the young with the benefits of risk
taking and the need to allow young people to experiment.
In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged
as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates,
supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an
approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead
for governments to control consumption across whole populations
through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail
availability and marketing regulations. Alcohol, Power and Public
Health explores the emergence of the public health perspective on
alcohol policy in Europe, the strategies alcohol control policy
advocates have adopted, and the challenges they have faced in the
political context of both individual states and the European Union.
The book provides a historical perspective on the development of
alcohol policy in Europe using four case studies - Denmark,
England, Scotland and Ireland. It explores the relationship between
evidence, values and power in a key area of political
decision-making and considers what conditions create - or prevent -
policy change. The case studies raise questions as to who sets
policy agendas, how social problems are framed and defined, and how
governments can balance public health promotion against both
commercial interests and established cultural practices. This book
will be of interest to academics and researchers in policy studies,
public health, social science, and European Union studies.
This work examines the social, political and health policy contexts within which alcohol treatment policy has emerged and changed since 1950. Three themes are highlighted as particularly relevant to an examination of policy trends:;The emergence and evolution of a 'policy community' spear-headed by psychiatrists in the 1960s but broadening to include other profession and the voluntary sector by the 1980s. This text traces professional changes and tensions and their effects on the formation and implementation of policy into the '90s.;The role of research which influenced the nature and direction of policy. Changing approaches to alcohol treatment reveal the increasing uses of research as the rationale for social and health policy decisions and illustrate the move towards a contractor relationship between research workers and policy makers.;The changing conceptions and competing paradigms of the problem tracing the effect of ideological shifts on the balance between treatment responses and prevention and public health approaches to complex social medical problems such as alcoholism.;Within these broad themes, the text portrays the pressures and tensions on government departments, the
The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by
policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept
remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the
thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service
users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and
centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.
Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence
really mean, not only to the professional involved in
rehabilitation but also to each individual client, and how 'coerced
treatment' fails to take account of recovery as a long-term and
ongoing process. Chapters cover the influence of crime and public
health in UK drug policy; the ongoing emphasis on substitute
prescribing; the role of recovery groups and communities; and
gendered differences in the recovery process and implications for
responses aimed at supporting women. Tackling Addiction will be
essential reading for practitioners, researchers, policy makers and
students in the fields of addiction, social care, psychology and
criminal justice.
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