Drugs and Culture : Knowledge, Consumption and Policy.
Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, 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 ps...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2011.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409405443 1409405443 1409405435 9781409405436 |