Full Description
This Research Handbook presents cutting-edge scholarship on key theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary approaches to understanding drugs and society. It explores the socially and culturally pervasive nature of illicit drugs, demonstrating how the drug question bears all the distinctive hallmarks of a seemingly intractable 'wicked problem' and constitutes a major twenty-first century global challenge.Leading international scholars expertly synthesise critical empirical research and data to generate a global picture of contemporary patterns and trends in drug production, distribution and consumption. Highlighting critical insights from diverse historical and disciplinary perspectives, the Research Handbook also examines the impact of drug use on individuals and societies, providing an intellectual framework for developing transformative solutions to this complex transnational issue.
The Research Handbook on Drugs and Society is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, criminology and public health, and social scientists more broadly. It is also highly relevant to policy and campaigning organisations looking to address the societal challenges raised by the drug problem.
Contents
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: Researching drugs and society 2
Toby Seddon
PART II KEY CONCEPTS
2 Drugs 12
Toby Seddon
3 Intoxication 22
Phil Withington
4 Addiction 33
Peder Clark and Oisín Wall
PART III HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
5 The long view: Surveying the use of plant-based psychoactives in
prehistoric societies 47
Elisa Guerra-Doce
6 Cannabis: A brief global historical biogeography 59
Chris Duvall
7 From opium to fentanyl: A global history 71
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
8 Cocaine's variable past(s) 84
Paul Gootenberg
9 The origins and early evolution of the international drug control system:
1729-1967 95
John Collins
PART IV THEORETICAL AND DISCIPLINARY LENSES
10 Anthropology 109
Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page
11 Economics 122
Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Aldighieri
12 Sociology 134
Karen Joe-Laidler and Kate Lowe
13 Psychology and neuroscience 151
Catharine Montgomery, Abigail K. Rose and Andrew J. Jones
14 Law and regulation 164
Toby Seddon
15 Science and technology studies 175
Nancy D. Campbell
16 Decolonial approaches to drugs and drug studies 190
Maziyar Ghiabi
PART V GLOBAL TRENDS AND PATTERNS
17 Global trends: Reviewing 25 years of the United Nations World Drug
Report 204
Toby Seddon
18 Drugs and crime: documenting, explaining, and intervening in the
relationship 215
Glenn D. Walters
19 Race, ethnicity and the global war on drugs 230
Anita Kalunta-Crumpton
20 Sex differences, gendering and drugs 242
Beth Glover Reed, Yun Chen and Lauren Whitmer
21 Poverty, inequality and drugs 258
Susanne MacGregor and Aileen O'Gorman
22 Africa: Drug Production, Drug Problems and the Legacies of Colonialism 274
Simon Howell, Clemence Rusenga, Gernot Klantschnig and Neil Carrier
PART VI CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, INNOVATIONS, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
23 The online drug market spectrum 287
James Martin and Andrew Childs
24 A psychedelic renaissance: novel treatments for mental illnesses 298
David Nutt
25 Treatment, recovery and mutual aid: new directions 310
David Best, Satinder Jandu, Lisa Webster and Phil Hodgson
PART VII CONCLUSION
26 Research frontiers in the twenty-first century 323
Toby Seddon
Afterword 331
Toby Seddon
