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Starting points : drugs, values and drug policy -- "Afflictions of inequality?" : the social distribution of drug use, dependence and related harms -- Beyond the tripartite framework : the subterranean structuration of the drug- -- Crime link -- Telling policy stories : governmental use of evidence and policy on drugs and crime -- The ideology of exclusion : cases in English drug policy -- The effects of drug policy -- International perspectives : does drug policy matter? -- Towards progressive decriminalisation.

'Drugs, Crime and Public Health' provides a critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach, centred on the UK, but with insights and data gathered from the USA and other countries, it argues that problematic drug use can only be understood in the social context in which it takes place.

Drug policy has spread into new areas of society and new players are now engaged in this policy. This leads to the question: How can we understand and explain the increasingly complex puzzle that we call drug policy? A very wide range of drug policies are implemented in contemporary societies - not only by governments, but also by local communities, organisations, public institutions, private enterprises, sports clubs etc., with consequences for drug users, citizens and society in general. In this book, anthropologists, criminologists and sociologists analyse different aspects of drug policy, seeing it as a way of regulation drugs - including control, treatment, prevention and harm reduction. Using examples from both Denmark and the USA, the authors' approach is to focus in particular on the history and consequences of drug policy in practice. The topic is analysed on an international, national as well as local level. The book will be of great value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in drug policy, as well as to academics, practitioners and policy makers in the drug field

The 2016 UNGASS on drug policy resulted in an Outcome Document detailing profound differences of opinion and practice between different states polarising public health and human rights themes. This book examines the different positions, the underlying problems, and the options open for the next international gathering on drugs

Written by an international group of addiction scientists, this text is intended to improve the links between addiction science and drug policy. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on drug use research that has a direct relevance to the development of drug policy at local, national and international levels.

Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling examines the organizational structures of drug smuggling from Colombia to the US. Career drug smugglers describe a series of often disconnected networks that enable smugglers to best organize their business in a way that will minimize the risks of apprhension and maximize profits

Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; Governing mentalities; Expertise ; Technologies of power ; A feminist sociological perspective ; A comparative approach; Outline of the book; Part One ; 1. Research context; Baby vessels and bad mothers; Psychopathological and emotionally disturbed women; Polluted and polluting women ; Passive dependents or emancipated lawbreakers? ; Rational agents ; 2. Political context ; History of prohibition; Punitive regulation; Neoliberalism, freedom and disordered production