Drugs and Social Context: Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs

Description

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restricted either to a purely medical perspective (focused mainly on treatment techniques) or to a criminological perspective (focused mainly on drug trafficking and organized crime). The social approach adopted in this volume challenges this dichotomy and analyzes both the social contexts to which drug use is related and the social and political consequences of the attitudes and policies adopted by governments and other social groups towards drug users, addressing topics such as: Drugs and poverty Drugs and genderDrugs and raceDrugs and territoryStigmatization of drug useProhibitionism Given its broad and innovative approach, Drugs and Social Context - Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs will be of interest for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals, since the study of the social aspects of drug use is central to everyone who deals with the issue. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Context of Drug Use in the Consumer Society (Telmo Mota Ronzani)....Pages 3-13 The Stigmatization of Drug Use as Mechanism of Legitimation of Exclusion (Pollyanna Santos da Silveira, Joanna Gonçalves Andrade de Tostes, Hoi Ting Wan, Telmo Mota Ronzani, Patrick W. Corrigan)....Pages 15-25 Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies (Marcelo Rossal)....Pages 27-45 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Drugs and Poverty: Interfaces of Oppression in the Capitalist World (Verônica Morais Ximenes, Fernando Santana de Paiva, James Ferreira Moura Jr, Pedro Henrique Antunes da Costa)....Pages 49-61 Drugs and Gender (Nuria Romo-Avilés)....Pages 63-75 Drugs and Race (Adriana Eiko Matsumoto, Marcio Farias, Silvio Luiz de Almeida)....Pages 77-88 (Des)Occupation of Urban and Rural Spaces, Gentrification and Drug Use (Magda Dimenstein, Marcelo Dalla Vecchia, João Paulo Macedo, Francisco Inacio Bastos)....Pages 89-109 Back Matter ....Pages 111-114