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The political economy of narcotics : production, consumption and global markets /

This scholarly examination of the worldwide web of narcotics today provides students, social workers, health providers, law enforcement officers and policy makers with an up-to-date, overall exploration of the world of drugs. Vast resources are pumped into the 'war on drugs'. But in practi...

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Основен автор: Buxton, Julia.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Black Point, Canada : London ; New York : New York : Fernwood Pub. ; Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Предмети:
Drug control > History.
Drug abuse > Government policy.
Drug traffic > Government policy.
Narcotics > Economic aspects.
Drug control > Economic aspects.
Drug abuse > Economic aspects.
Drug traffic > Economic aspects.
Drogues > Trafic.
Drogue, Lutte contre la.
Toxicomanie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Drug control.
Globalisierung.
Rauschgift.
Drogues > Lutte contre.
Electronic books.
History.
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Съдържание:
  • 1. Intoxicating substances in historical perspective
  • The role of drugs in global society
  • Opium and empire
  • The Chinese opium market
  • 2. The drift to regulation and the idea of prohibition
  • Drug consumption in the Western market
  • The advent of control : Britain and America contrasted
  • The US modernization experience : tension and protest
  • The alcohol prohibition movement and experience
  • 3. From regulation to control : the internationalization of drug prohibition
  • The anti-opium campaign in Britain
  • Enter America : the anti-opium campaign of the US government
  • The Shanghai Conference of 1909 and its impact
  • 4. The beginnings of international drug control
  • From principle to policy
  • Evaluating the early drug control system
  • Domestic drug control
  • 5. The post-war international drug control regime
  • The United Nations and drug control
  • The post-war model : prohibition victory?
  • Rebellion and division within the drug control system
  • 6. Trends in drug consumption
  • The knowledge gap
  • Patterns of controlled drug use
  • Consumption dynamics in the 2000s.
  • 7. Trends in cultivation and production
  • Supply controls phase 1 : opiates, supply reduction and the rise of the Golden Triangle
  • Supply controls phase 2 : supply expansion and the Golden Crescent
  • Coca and cocaine
  • The manufacture and supply of other controlled drugs
  • The traffic in and traffickers of controlled drugs
  • 8. Accounting for failure : the problem of prohibition
  • The limits of prohibition
  • The economics of the drug trade
  • 9. Accounting for failure 2 : institutions and policy
  • Alternative development
  • Research : a hostile environment
  • Demand-side neglect
  • By way of a conclusion : institutional crisis and decline
  • 10. The political impact of drugs and drug control
  • The importance of state presence
  • Anti-drug responses : more harm than good?
  • United States : the heart of the problem
  • Full circle : more harm than good?
  • 11. HIV/AIDS and intravenous drug use
  • The epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
  • The rise of the post-Soviet drug problem
  • IDU-related sub-epidemics : the global picture
  • From IDUs to broader infection
  • Conclusion
  • 12. International drug control and HIV/AIDS
  • Harm reduction and injecting drug use
  • Injecting drug use and prisons
  • Opposition to harm reduction
  • A problem caused by drug control?
  • Conclusion.
  • 13. Cultivation and drug production : the environmental costs
  • The greening of the drugs issue
  • The environmental costs of narcotic plant cultivation
  • Drug production and the environment
  • Drugs and the environment : a credible debate?
  • Conclusion
  • 14. Anti-drug policies and the environment : the role of chemical fumigation
  • US fumigation strategies in historical context : the Mexican experience
  • Contemporary fumigation strategies : Plan Colombia
  • The impact of chemical fumigation with Glyphosate
  • The politics of fumigation
  • By way of a conclusion
  • 15. The new magic bullet : bio-control solutions
  • The evolution of the mycoherbicide strategy
  • The Fusarium debate
  • The direction of mycoherbicide research
  • The politics of mycoherbicides
  • The challenge of US unilateralism
  • Conclusion
  • 16. A note on hemp
  • A brief history of hemp
  • The economic causes of hemp's decline
  • The political causes of hemp's decline
  • The contemporary hemp revolution
  • Conclusion
  • By way of a conclusion.

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