Research Handbook on Drugs and Society

Name: Research Handbook on Drugs and Society
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802209136
Price: 2585.05 HKD
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Author: Toby Seddon
ISBN: 9781802209136

By Toby Seddon

New Arrival Edward Elgar Publishing May 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781802209136
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: May 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Research Handbook presents cutting-edge scholarship on key theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary approaches to understanding drugs and society. It explores the socially and culturally pervasive nature of illicit drugs, demonstrating how the drug question bears all the distinctive hallmarks of a seemingly intractable ‘wicked problem’ and constitutes a major twenty-first century global challenge.

Leading international scholars expertly synthesise critical empirical research and data to generate a global picture of contemporary patterns and trends in drug production, distribution and consumption. Highlighting critical insights from diverse historical and disciplinary perspectives, the Research Handbook also examines the impact of drug use on individuals and societies, providing an intellectual framework for developing transformative solutions to this complex transnational issue.

The Research Handbook on Drugs and Society is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, criminology and public health, and social scientists more broadly. It is also highly relevant to policy and campaigning organisations looking to address the societal challenges raised by the drug problem.

PART I INTRODUCTION; 1.
Introduction: Researching drugs and society 2: Toby Seddon; PART II KEY CONCEPTS; 2.
Drugs 12: Toby Seddon; 3.
Intoxication 22: Phil Withington; 4.
Addiction 33: Peder Clark and Oisín Wall; PART III HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; 5.
The long view: Surveying the use of plant-based psychoactives in: prehistoric societies 47; Elisa Guerra-Doce; 6.
Cannabis: A brief global historical biogeography 59: Chris Duvall; 7.
From opium to fentanyl: A global history 71: Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy; 8.
Cocaine’s variable past(s) 84: Paul Gootenberg; 9.
The origins and early evolution of the international drug control system: 1729-1967 95: John Collins; PART IV THEORETICAL AND DISCIPLINARY LENSES; 10.
Anthropology 109: Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page; 11.
Economics 122: Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Aldighieri; 12.
Sociology 134: Karen Joe-Laidler and Kate Lowe; 13.
Psychology and neuroscience 151: Catharine Montgomery, Abigail K. Rose and Andrew J. Jones; 14.
Law and regulation 164: Toby Seddon; 15.
Science and technology studies 175: Nancy D. Campbell; 16.
Decolonial approaches to drugs and drug studies 190: Maziyar Ghiabi; PART V GLOBAL TRENDS AND PATTERNS; 17.
Global trends: Reviewing 25 years of the United Nations World Drug Report 204: Toby Seddon; 18.
Drugs and crime: documenting, explaining, and intervening in the relationship 215: Glenn D. Walters; 19.
Race, ethnicity and the global war on drugs 230: Anita Kalunta-Crumpton; 20.
Sex differences, gendering and drugs 242: Beth Glover Reed, Yun Chen and Lauren Whitmer; 21.
Poverty, inequality and drugs 258: Susanne MacGregor and Aileen O’Gorman; 22.
Africa: Drug Production, Drug Problems and the Legacies of Colonialism 274: Simon Howell, Clemence Rusenga, Gernot Klantschnig and Neil Carrier; PART VI CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, INNOVATIONS, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES; 23.
The online drug market spectrum 287: James Martin and Andrew Childs; 24.
A psychedelic renaissance: novel treatments for mental illnesses 298: David Nutt; 25.
Treatment, recovery and mutual aid: new directions 310: David Best, Satinder Jandu, Lisa Webster and Phil Hodgson; PART VII CONCLUSION; 26.
Research frontiers in the twenty-first century 323: Toby Seddon; Afterword 331; Toby Seddon