Drug Addiction and Drug Policy
The Struggle to Control Dependence
Published on 1. July 2009
283 pages
978-0-674-03862-2 (ISBN)
Description
Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom, the authors draw on recent debate in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology to show that these standard dichotomies are themselves false.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03862-2 (9780674038622)
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Philip B. Heymann | William N. Brownsberger
Drug Addiction and Drug Policy
The Struggle to Control Dependence
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07/2001
Harvard University Press
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Persons
Philip Heymann is James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. William N. Brownsberger is Associate Director for Public Policy at the Division on Addictions at Harvard Medical School. Gene M. Heyman is a research psychologist at McLean Hospital and a Lecturer in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Mark H. Moore is Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Herbert A. Simon Professor of Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. George E. Vaillant is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Content
Contents Introduction: Drug Policy with a New Focus 1. Toward a Balanced Drug-Prevention Strategy: A Conceptual Map 2. Drug Users and Drug Dealers 3. Is Addiction a Chronic, Relapsing Disease? 4. Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease? 5. If Addiction Is Involuntary, How Can Punishment Help? 6. Controlling Drug Use and Crime with Testing, Sanctions, and Treatment 7. Limits on the Role of Testing and Sanctions 8. How Should Low-Level Drug Dealers Be Punished? 9. Reflections on Drug Policy and Social Policy Postscript Contributors
