Drugs, crime and public health : the political economy of drug policy /
By: Stevens, Alex.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2011Description: xiv, 201 p. : charts ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415610674 (pbk.); 9780415610674:; 0415610672 (pbk.).Subject(s): Drug control -- Great Britain | Drug abuse -- Great Britain | Drug abuse and crime -- Great Britain | Drug abuse -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Great Britain | Drug abuse -- Government policy -- Great Britain | Drug abuse -- Health aspects -- Great Britain | Drug addicts -- Medical care | Drug addicts -- Social aspects -- Great BritainDDC classification: 362.291561 Summary: 'Drugs, Crime and Public Health' provides a critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach, centred on the UK, but with insights and data gathered from the USA and other countries, it argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 362.291561 STE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0063799 |
"A GlassHouse book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Drugs, Crime and Public Health' provides a critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach, centred on the UK, but with insights and data gathered from the USA and other countries, it argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place.