Demystifying Drugs

A Psychosocial Perspective

By: Ted Goldberg, Jo Campling (Editor)

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Paperback | 12 July 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Based on extensive participant observation research, this work presents a life history model to explain why very few of those who come into contact with narcotics become problematic consumers, that is make drugs one of the most central elements in their lives. The model covers four stages in the deviant career, two preceding and two subsequent to the individual's narcotics debut. Prohibition and harm reduction as models for intervention are presented, and the implications for drug policy of the life history model are discussed.

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List of Figures	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
On Drugs and Drug Consumers
Introduction	p. 3
Assumptions and Concepts	p. 9
The Social Components of Drug-Influenced Behaviour	p. 22
Why Do People Take Drugs?	p. 41
The Psychosocial Background of Problematic Consumers	p. 60
Deviant Careers
The Deviant Career: a Model	p. 81
Parental Labelling	p. 98
Societal Labelling	p. 116
Secondary Deviance	p. 127
The Deviance Spiral	p. 141
Narcotics Policy
Can We Cut the Supply?	p. 153
Prohibition - Swedish Narcotics Policy	p. 175
Harm Reduction - Dutch Narcotics Policy	p. 216
Demand Reduction	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 269
Name Index	p. 278
Subject Index	p. 281
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