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Drugs
Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life

Edited by:

Nigel South - University of Essex, UK

Courses:
Drugs & Society

February 1999 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race' and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.

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Nigel South

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Debating Drugs and Everyday Life

Normalization, Prohibition and 'Otherness'

PART TWO: CULTURES: FORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS

Harry Shapiro

Dances with Drugs

Pop Music, Drugs and Youth Culture

Sheila Henderson

Drugs and Culture

The Question of Gender

Karim Murji

White Lines

Culture, `Race' and Drugs

PART THREE: CONTROLS: POLICY, POLICING AND PROHIBITION

Susanne MacGregor

Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre

Policy Responses to Drug Misuse

Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee

Drugs and Policing in Europe

From Low Streets to High Places

Ross Coomber

Controlling Drugs in Sport

Contradictions and Complexity

Vincenzo Ruggiero

Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug

Discussing the Legalization of Illicit Substances

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

Michael Shiner and Tim Newburn

Taking Tea with Noel

The Place and Meaning of Drug Use in Everyday Life

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