Beschreibung:
The second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address:
1. Preface and acknowledgements 2. British society and illicit drug use: historical perspectives 3. Measuring the 'problem': drug use in contemporary Britain 4. The British State's legal and medical responses to illicit drug use 5. Illicit drug use: class, gender and ethnicity 6. Illicit drugs: growth and production 7. The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution 8. Illicit drugs: markets and market focus 9. Illicit drugs: paying for the goods and assessing the costs 10. Policing the problem: current trends in U.K. drug policy 11. Comparing British drug policy