Key Concepts in Drugs and Society
- ISBN-10
- 1526401673
- ISBN-13
- 9781526401670
- Category
- Drug abuse
- Pages
- 197
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Authors
- Ross Coomber, Karen McElrath, Fiona Measham
Description
How do we understand drug use? How are drugs related to our social worlds? How should drug use be understood, approached and dealt with? Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. Powerful and engaging, this book discusses main questions within the field of psychoactive drugs research, such as: Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people's social positions influence their individual involvement in drug use? This is an invaluable reference source for students on ...
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