The Drug Effect : Health, Crime and Society (Paperback)

Introduction: the drug effect: constructing drugs and addiction Suzanne Fraser and David Moore; Part I. Drug Use as Social and Cultural Practice: 1. The social life of smokes: processes of exchange in a heroin marketplace Robyn Dwyer; 2. Party animals: the significance of drug practices in the materialisation of urban gay identity Kane Race; 3. Pleasure and pain: representations of illegal drug consumption and trafficking in music, film, and video Susan Boyd; 4. The ontological politics of knowledge production: qualitative research in the multidisciplinary drug field David Moore; Part II. Drugs, Health and the Medicalisation of Addiction: 5. Beyond the 'potsherd': the role of injecting drug use-related stigma in shaping hepatitis C Suzanne Fraser; 6. Drugs that work: pharmaceuticals and performance self-management Helen Keane; 7. From 'magic bullets' to medical maintenance: the changing meanings of medical approaches to drug use in US drug policy Nancy D. Campbell; 8. Pharmacotherapy as social policy, or, the public and private worlds of welfare capitalism kylie valentine; Part III. Drugs, Crime and the Law: 9. Court-ordered treatment, neo-liberalism and homo economicus Toby Seddon; 10. Cannabis in cultural and legal limbo: criminalisation, legalisation and the mixed blessing of medicalisation in the U.S. Craig Reinarman; 11. Drugs, crime and the law in Australia Ian Warren; 12. Re-conceptualising harm reduction in prisons Karen Duke; 13. Possessed: the unconscious law of drugs Desmond Manderson.