A History of Drugs: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

by Toby Seddon

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Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as 'dangerous drugs', to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others - from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call 'medicines' - are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a genealogy of the construction and governance of the 'drug problem' over the past 200 years: calling into question some of the most fundamental ideas in this field:...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415589606

ISBN13:9780415589604

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Routledge Cavendish

Length:186 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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