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The social value of drug addicts : uses of the useless
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ISBN: 1315417162 1315417170 1611321190 9781611321197 9781315417172 9781611321173 1611321174 9781611321180 1611321182 9781315417165 9781315417141 9781315417158 1315417154 9781611327519 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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"Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless--culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalization, demonization, and even popular glamorization of addicts. Synthesizing a broad range of key literature and advancing innovative arguments about the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary society, this book is an important contribution to public health, medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields"--


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Drogues, santé et société
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ISSN: 17038847 17038839 Year: 2002 Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Erudit,

Prevention and societal impact of drug and alcohol abuse
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ISBN: 0805831584 Year: 1999 Publisher: Mahwah Erlbaum

Addiction : from biology to drug policy
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ISBN: 1280835478 9786610835478 0198033524 9780198033523 0195146638 9780195146639 0195146646 9780195146646 019770543X 9781280835476 6610835470 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Drug addiction as a brain disease is this book's theme. In clear scientific terms it describes the nature of chemical addiction and addictive behaviour and the muddied effort to develop effective drug control policies and laws.

Crime, drugs and social theory : a phenomenological approach.
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ISBN: 9780754647423 9781315258959 9781351947589 9781138257214 Year: 2007 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

Substance use & abuse
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ISBN: 076192342X 1322414882 1452262969 9781452262963 9781452229676 1452229678 0761923411 9780761923411 9780761923428 9781322414881 Year: 2003 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications

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The primary goal of the authors is to explore the cultural & historical variables that provide a contextual base to drug abuse. They demonstrate how this approach can be integrated within a mainstream biopsychosocial perspective.


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Substance use in a comparative perspective
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ISBN: 8024623382 9788024623382 9788024618913 Year: 2011 Publisher: Prague [Czech Republic]


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Cultura y droga : en Manizales.
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ISSN: 25907840 Year: 1994 Publisher: Caldas, Colombia : Universidad de Caldas,

Drug addiction and families
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ISBN: 1280929391 9786610929399 1846425654 9781846425653 9781843104032 1843104032 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Drug Addiction and Families is an exploration of the impact of drug use on families, and of the extent to which current practice meets the needs of families as well as problem drug users. Drawing on a substantial research Marina Barnard examines the effects of drug use not only on drug users themselves, but also their extended families.

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