Drugs and Social Context Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ronzani, Telmo Mota (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Public health.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Public Health.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1. Drugs and Society
• Chapter 1.The context of drug use in the consumer society
• Chapter 2. The stigmatization of drug use as mechanism of legitimation of exclusion
• Chapter 3. Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies
• Section 2. Social Issues
• Chapter 4.Drugs and Poverty: interfaces of oppression in the capitalist world
• Chapter 5.Drugs and Gender
• Chapter 6. Drugs and Race
• Chapter 7. (Des)Occupation of urban and rural spaces, gentrification and drug use.