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Drugs and Social Context : Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs

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Telmo Mota Ronzani, editor. --Cham: Springer , c2018.

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This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restr…

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Other Authors: Ronzani, Telmo Mota

Responsibility: Telmo Mota Ronzani, editor

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2018

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 114 p.)

ISBN: 9783319724461; 9783319724454 (print ed.); 9783319724478 (print ed.); 9783319891835 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Alcohol Drinking; Drug and Narcotic Control; Drug Users; Social Control, Informal; Socioeconomic Factors; Street Drugs; Social Stigma

Specialty: Policy; Sociology, Medical

Abstract: This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restricted either to a purely medical perspective (focused mainly on treatment techniques) or to a criminological perspective (focused mainly on drug trafficking and organized crime). The social approach adopted in this volume challenges this dichotomy and analyzes both the social contexts to which drug use is related and the social and political consequences of the attitudes and policies adopted by governments and other social groups towards drug users, addressing topics such as: Drugs and poverty; Drugs and gender; Drugs and race; Drugs and territory; Stigmatization of drug use; Prohibitionism. Given its broad and innovative approach, Drugs and Social Context - Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs will be of interest for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals, since the study of the social aspects of drug use is central to everyone who deals with the issue.

Contents: Drugs and society -- 1. The context of drug use in the consumer society -- 2. The stigmatization of drug use as mechanism of legitimation of exclusion -- 3. Social effects of prohibitionism in the Americas and new drug policies -- Social issues -- 4. Drugs and poverty: interfaces of oppression in the capitalist world -- 5. Drugs and gender -- 6. Drugs and race -- 7. (Des)Occupation of urban and rural spaces, gentrification and drug use.