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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.
In this book, anthropologists, criminologists and sociologists
analyse different aspects of drug policy. The articles approach
drug policy from new angles, focusing in particular on the history
and consequences of drug policy in practice. How can we understand
and explain the increasingly complex puzzle that we call drug
policy? The authors explore in different ways how drug policy has
spread into new areas of society, how new players are engaged in
drug policy, and what consequences this has for drug users,
citizens, or society in general. Taking a point of departure in
drug policy as a way of regulating drugs - including control,
treatment, prevention and harm reduction - the book shows how drug
policy has become increasingly diverse and evident at many levels
of society. A very wide range of drug policies are implemented in
contemporary societies - not only by governments, but also by local
communities, organisations, public institutions, private
enterprises, sports clubs etc. Using examples from both Denmark and
the USA, drug policy is analysed on an international, national and
local level. This book will be of great value to advanced
undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in drug
policy, as well as to academics, practitioners and policy makers in
the drug policy field.
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