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Judging Drugs: Key Issues in Law and Society

Name: Judging Drugs: Key Issues in Law and Society
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009713351
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Author: Simon Flacks; Kate Seear
ISBN: 9781009713351

Edited by Simon Flacks · Kate Seear

New Arrival Cambridge University Press May 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781009713351
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Every day, judges determine vital questions about 'addiction', 'drugs', and the rights of those who use them. Despite the law's crucial role in handling drug 'problems', and in shaping drug practices, effects and outcomes, drug scholars have often overlooked case law. In a rapidly changing drug policy landscape, how is the law managing drug effects and harms, stigma, addiction, agency and responsibility? Why do we regulate drugs? Are drug offenders responsible for their actions? Is drug use a disability? Is drug treatment a human right? Do drugs cause harm? And might drug law itself be harmful? Authors in this volume take a variety of approaches to these questions and more.

Drawing on critical theory, all consider new ways of thinking about 'drug problems'. This vital new collection enables a deeper, critical understanding of how the law 'works' to shape knowledge about, as well as 'judge', drug use and its effects.

Introduction

Kate Seear and Simon Flacks

1. What is an e-cigarette? Comparison and resemblance in tobacco control

Helen Keane

2. Remembering Poccum: stigma, suffering, torture and rupture after the death of Veronica Nelson Kate Seear

3. Violence, alcohol and the making of psychosis

Simon Flacks

4. The undeclared war on drugs in the post-Soviet limbo

Alexandra Dmitrieva and Vladimir Stepanov

5. From crack house to supervised consumption site: Overdose and the politics of (False) equivalency in the United States

Shana Harris

6. Policing maintenance: judicial restrictions on Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD as a violation of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA)

Nancy Campbell

7. This is only the beginning': drug induced homicide, a test case, and the construction of death-worlds in the US overdose crisis

Allison Schlosser

8. Speaking legally' to rule out emergency claims in Swedish cannabis cases

Mats Ekendahl

9. Rethinking the sexual subject: assembling intoxication, gender and consent in the law

Renae Fomiatti, Kiran Pienaar and Gemma Nourse

10. Revisiting the entrepreneurial 'dealer': the case of Shiny Flakes

Aysel Sultan

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