Beschreibung:
A History of Drugs details the history of the relationship between drugs and freedom over the last two hundred years; thus disturbing and unravelling the 'naturalness' of the 'drug question', as it traces the multiple and heterogeneous lines of development out of which it has been assembled.
1. Introduction: Drugs, Freedom and Liberalism 2. A Conceptual Map: Freedom, the 'Will' and Addiction 3. Opium, Regulation and Classical Liberalism: The Pharmacy Act 1868 4. Drugs, Prohibition and Welfarism: The Dangerous Drugs Act 1920 5. Drugs, Risk and Neo-liberalism: The Drugs Act 2005 6. Drugs as a Regulation and Governance Problem 7. Conclusions: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age