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  • The Control of Drugs and Drug Users

    Reason or Reaction?

    by Ross Coomber ...
    Informed debate on how, why, or even if, drugs and those that use them should be controlled needs an insight into the background of such controls, how effective they have been and what reasonable alternatives there may be. This book seeks to provide such an insight. Reviewing important aspects of past and current drug control policies in Britain and America, the international compliment of expert ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Crime and Society

    by Ross Coomber, Karen McElrath, John Scott, Joseph F. Donnermeyer ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "A crucial text for whetting the academic appetite of those studying criminology at university. The comprehensive engagement with key crime and deviance debates and issues make this a perfect springboard for launching into the complex, diverse and exciting realm of researching criminology."- Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York"Essential reading for those new to the discipline and an ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Key Concepts in Drugs and Society

    by Ross Coomber, Karen McElrath, Fiona Measham, Karenza Moore ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    ′This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today.′- Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex′Provides informative, balanced and contextualized ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reefer Sanity

    Seven Great Myths About Marijuana

    by Kevin Sabet ...
    It is high time to think sanely about marijuana.Reefer Sanity offers a solution to the long-had debate about marijuana—one that steers clear of policy extremes, challenges assumptions, and shifts the emphasis to education, intervention, and common sense.A former Senior Advisor in President Obama's drug policy offer, Kevin Sabet conscientiously examines the socio-economic consequences and the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Not That Simple: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Today

    by Jean Echlin, Ian Gentles ...
    It's Not That Simple: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide presents the reader with the knowledge and understanding of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and how it will greatly impact our society.  ... Read more

    $10.24 USD

  • Rise Up/Fight Back

    Selected Writings of an Antipsychiatry Activist

    by Don Weitz ...
    The book features a radical perspective on psychiatry and the “mental health system” informed by an antipsychiatry perspective and anti-oppression analysis. In the Introduction, antipsychiatry is defined as active and radical resistance to psychiatry - antipsychiatry is not an intellectual or “academic exercise.” The book deconstructs psychiatry as a social control system.. As social control, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unequal Pandemic

    COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

    by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch ...
    Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal ... Read more

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  • Legalising drugs

    Debates and dilemmas

    by Philip Bean ...
    Government policy has steadfastly been against drug legalisation, but increasingly critics have argued that this is unsustainable. This book is a timely examination of the issues this raises.Numerous suggestions have been offered. Some seek complete legalisation, others a more modified form, yet still others want an increasing commitment to harm reduction policies.Philip Bean examines the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Off the Street

    Legalizing Drugs

    by W.A. Bogart ...
    Series Book 4 - Point of View
    An unflinching analysis of one of the major issues of our time — the shift from criminalization to regulation of recreational drugs.The “war on drugs” has failed. The cost of trying to control the production, sale, and use of recreational drugs through the criminal law is too high: unjust incarceration, illicit markets, tainted substances, exploited children, and an untaxed industry.But there is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Drug Effect

    Health, Crime and Society

    Edited by Suzanne Fraser, David Moore ...
    The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together work by respected scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores social and cultural meanings of drug use and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision. In doing so, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Whiteout

    How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

    by Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg ...
    The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis ... Read more

    $23.99 USD