Drug Control in a Free Society
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 April 1988
- ISBN 9780521357722
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages188 pages
- Size 228x172x13 mm
- Weight 268 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers a provocative analysis of controlling alcohol and drugs in industrial societies.
MoreLong description:
Virtually all known human groups have devised and regularly used techniques for altering consciousness, among which alcohol and drugs are prominent. James B. Bakalar and Lester Grinspoon offer a provocative analysis of the philosophical and historical foundations for efforts to control these techniques in industrial societies. What are the rights of individuals to diversity and enrich their experience? What, conversely, are the obligations of governments to protect their citizens? The authors explore the relevance to drug control of traditional doctrines of political liberty. They discuss the ideas of addiction, dependence, and compulsive drug use, central in both medical and legal definitions of drug abuse. They consider the history and sociology of modern drug control, and go on to present a useful typology of the forms of drug control. After assessing each point, they examine alternative ways of looking at what is usually called the drug problem. The book will be of interest to all those concerned with drugs and social control, in a wide range of fields.
'This is a landmark book, destined to be regaled and harangued by many : should be read by a wide group of individuals, including members of the legal, political, medical, and drug abuse fields. Its views will irritate some and please others but, like the question of mind-altering drugs themselves, should give us all much to reflect on.' Journal of the American Medical Association
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Questions of risk and liberty; 2. The meanings of addiction and dependence; 3. The historical direction of drug policy; 4. Varieties of drug control; 5. Solution or dissolution of the drug problem? Bibliography; Index.
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