A Land fit for heroin? : drug policies, prevention, and practice

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A Land fit for heroin? : drug policies, prevention, and practice

edited by Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South

Macmillan Education, 1987

  • pbk.

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Bibliography: p. 170-180

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Bringing together a range of important new research findings, this book provides a clear account of the effects and incidence of heroin use in Britain, the policies presently deployed to combat it, and the broader patterns of production and distribution of the drug. The authors relate heroin use to other drug abuse and show many of the assumptions that underlie current policy to be erroneous proposing the elements of an alternative policy agenda. Essential reading for all concerned with the drug problem. `...I would enthusiastically commend the book to anyone with a basic working knowledge of the drug field who needed stimulation for a thought provoking weekend.' British Journal of Addiction

Table of Contents

  • Dedication - Acknowledgements - Introduction
  • N.Dorn and N.South - Heroin Today: Commodity, Consumption, Control and Care
  • ISDD Research and Development Unit - The War on Heroin: British Policy and the International Trade in Illicit Drugs
  • G.Stimson - Social Deprivation, Unemployment and Patterns of Heroin Use
  • G.Pearson - How Families and Communities Respond to Heroin
  • M.Donoghoe, N.Dorn, C.James, S.Jones, J.Ribbens and N.South - British Policy on the Treatment and Care of Drug Takers
  • S.MacGregor and B.Ettorre - Reconciling Policy and Practice
  • N.Dorn and N.South - Bibliography - Index

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