The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society

by Edited by Suzanne Fraser , David Moore

• ISBN13: 9780521156059
• ISBN10: 052115605X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society offers new perspectives on critical debates in the field of alcohol and other drug use. Drawing together work by respected scholars in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada, it explores social and cultural meanings of drug use, and analyses law enforcement and public health frameworks and objectives related to drug policy and service provision. In doing so, it addresses key questions of drug use and addiction through interdisciplinary, predominantly sociological and criminological, perspectives, mapping and building on recent conceptual and empirical advances in the field. These include questions of materiality and agency, the social constitution of disease and neo-liberal subjectivity and responsibility. This book provides a fresh scholarly perspective on drug use and addiction by collecting top quality original work, written by a mix of international leaders in the field and emerging scholars working at the cutting edge of research.

Author Biography

Suzanne Fraser is Associate Professor in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts at Monash University. She also holds a research appointment with the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University. David Moore is Professor in the National Drug Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction: Constructing drugs and addiction	p. 1
Drug use as social and cultural practice
The social life of smokes: Processes of exchange in a heroin marketplace	p. 19
Party animals: The significance of drug practices in the materialisation of urban gay identity	p. 35
Pleasure and pain: Representations of illegal drug consumption, addiction and trafficking in music, film and video	p. 57
The ontological politics of knowledge production: Qualitative research in the multidisciplinary drug field	p. 73
Drugs, health and the medicalisation of addiction
Beyond the 'potsherd': The role of injecting drug use-related stigma in shaping hepatitis C	p. 91
Drugs that work: Pharmaceuticals and performance self-management	p. 106
From 'magic bullets' to medical maintenance: The changing meanings of medical approaches to drug use in US drug policy	p. 122
Pharmacotherapy as social policy, or, the public and private worlds of welfare capitalism	p. 137
Drugs, crime and the law
Court-ordered treatment, neoliberalism and Homo economicus	p. 155
Cannabis in cultural and legal limbo: Criminalisation, legalization and the mixed blessing of medicalisation in the USA	p. 171
Drugs, crime and the law in Australia	p. 189
Reconceptualising harm reduction in prisons	p. 209
Possessed: The unconscious law of drugs	p. 225
Index	p. 240
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