Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of the 'drug problem' tend to be uni-dimensional and based around particular areas of risk: drug related crime, dependency and ill-health. This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on:

• the history of illicit drug use
• measuring the 'problem'
• legal and medical responses to illicit drug use
• the illicit drugs market
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Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy-makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of the drug problem tend to be uni-dimensional and based around particular areas of risk: risk of drug related crime, risk of dependency, risk of ill-health. This book moves beyond this single-issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on: the history of illicit drug use; measuring the problem; legal and medical responses to illicit drug use; the illicit drugs market; and drugs, crime and trends in drug...

Illicit drugs and their use are a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. As such, this second edition of the popular Illicit Drugs: Use and Control provides a timely, up-to-date discussion of the key issues raised in the first edition, whilst also providing new chapters which address:

• Class, gender and race
• The geo-politics of illicit drug production and distribution
• Britain's drug use within a global context

Drawing information from wide-ranging sources, Adrian Barton...