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Drugs, Intoxication and Society

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3546-0
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224 pages
December 2008, ©2009, Polity
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  • Original and radical look at the place of drugs in society.
  • Looks honestly at drugs and intoxication, removing the smog of taboo and prejudice, to discover the social factors that promote drugs use and the labelling of drug users as deviant.
  • Examines the full range of drugs – from coffee through illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine to twenty-first-century self-improvement and lifestyle drugs such as Viagra.
  • Discusses the rise of a ‘pharmaceutical society’ which defines new ‘problems’ and ‘conditions’ that require the creation and everyday consumption of yet more new drugs.

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