Drugs and the World
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2004
224 pages
978-1-86189-623-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks at drug use and abuse around the world, from the Caribbean and West Africa to Europe and the USA. Axel Klein shows the positive effect drugs have had in history, as well as the negative.
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Content
- Drugs and the World Cover
- Imprint page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Taking Leave of Our Senses: Drug Use and Drug-taking in the 21st Century
- 2 The Pathology of Drug Use
- 3 Possible Benefits of Drug Use
- 4 How Drugs Have Shaped History in the Modern Era
- 5 Redefining the Issue: Symptomof Decadence or Development Problem?
- 6 International Drug Control: System and Structure
- 7 How Drugs Became a Development Issue
- 8 Drugs and Development Along the Silk Route
- 9 Positives and Negatives of the Drugs Economy
- 10 The Khat Economy
- 11 Drugs and the Management of Pleasure
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Index
