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

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1. Drugs and Society.- Chapter 1.The context of drug use in the consumer society.- Chapter 2. The stigmatization of drug use as mechanism of legitimation of exclusion.- Chapter 3. Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies.- Section 2. Social Issues.- Chapter 4.Drugs and Poverty: interfaces of oppression in the capitalist world.- Chapter 5.Drugs and Gender.- Chapter 6. Drugs and Race.- Chapter 7. (Des)Occupation of urban and rural spaces, gentrification and drug use.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Telmo Mota Ronzani (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.02.2018
• EAN: 9783319724454
• ISBN: 978-3-31-972445-4
• Seiten: 114
• Abmessung: 162 mm x 245 mm x 14 mm
• Gewicht: 315 g
• Illustration: XVIII, 114 p.
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; B, Das Selbst, das Ich, Identität und Persönlichkeit, Social Inequality, Medicine, personality, Public Health, Social & ethical issues, War on Drugs, Social Psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten, drug policies, Drug markets, Drugs and human rights, Drugs and media, Drugs and consummer society, Drug abuse prevention, Drugs and market economy