Drug Addiction and Drug Policy - The Struggle to Control Dependence

This book is the culmination of five years of impassioned conversations among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. As these intensely argued chapters show, the obvious answers are always alluring but frequently wrong.

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Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom, the authors draw on recent debate in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology to show that these standard dichotomies are themselves false.

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• Authors: Philip B Heymann, Philip B. Heymann, Philip B. Brownsberger Heymann
• Assisted by: William N. Brownsberger (Editor), Brownsberger William N. (Editor), Philip B. Heymann (Editor), Heymann Philip B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2001
• EAN: 9780674003279
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00327-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative; Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; MEDICAL / Health Policy, Central / national / federal government policies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Other branches of medicine