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Matters of Substance: Drugs--And Why Everyone's a User
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Matters of Substance: Drugs--And Why Everyone's a User Hardback - 2005

by Griffith Edwards

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Why do people, countries, and centuries experience the same drug differently--and how should this affect the choices we make on drug control?
"Matters of Substance" presents a new and lucid approach to the much-debated questions of drug control around the world. Griffith Edwards argues for a consideration of all drugs--from caffeine to crack--as more than the sum of their chemical structure. He shows that the effect of a drug is just as dependent on the social setting, historical legacy, and psychology of an individual as it is on any inherent quality of the drug.
Attitudes about and control of drugs across the world are explored--from the use of marijuana in Amsterdam to cigarette smoking in the bars of New York. Various uses and abuses of drugs are examined within the web of ideas we hold about personal freedom, the right to pleasure, the responsibilites of government, and the impact of globalization. Authoritative and wide ranging, this book will inform and enlighten all future debates on drugs in society.

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  • Title Matters of Substance: Drugs--And Why Everyone's a User
  • Author Griffith Edwards
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 314
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thomas Dunne Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780312338831 / 031233883X
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 6.38 x 1.13 in (21.54 x 16.21 x 2.87 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug abuse, Drug abuse - Prevention
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005050100
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.29

About the author

Griffith Edwards set up the Addiction Research Unit in 1967, a research group that grew into what is now Britain's National Addiction Centre. He has advised the British Department of Health, Home Office, and Cabinet Office on aspects of drug and alcohol policy, as well as the World Health Organization. He set up research projects in Africa and Latin America, and acted as consultant to the White House Special Action Office on drug abuse. He is currently commissioning editor of the international scientific journal "Addiction" and emeritus professor of addiction behavior at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

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