Drugs and Social Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Drugs and Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Context of Drug Use in the Consumer Society

      • Telmo Mota Ronzani

      Pages 3-13

   3. The Stigmatization of Drug Use as Mechanism of Legitimation of Exclusion

      • Pollyanna Santos da Silveira, Joanna Gonçalves Andrade de Tostes, Hoi Ting Wan, Telmo Mota Ronzani, Patrick W. Corrigan

      Pages 15-25

   4. Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies

      • Marcelo Rossal

      Pages 27-45

3. Social Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Drugs and Poverty: Interfaces of Oppression in the Capitalist World

      • Verônica Morais Ximenes, Fernando Santana de Paiva, James Ferreira Moura Jr, Pedro Henrique Antunes da Costa

      Pages 49-61

   3. Drugs and Gender

      • Nuria Romo-Avilés

      Pages 63-75

   4. Drugs and Race

      • Adriana Eiko Matsumoto, Marcio Farias, Silvio Luiz de Almeida

      Pages 77-88

   5. (Des)Occupation of Urban and Rural Spaces, Gentrification and Drug Use

      • Magda Dimenstein, Marcelo Dalla Vecchia, João Paulo Macedo, Francisco Inacio Bastos

      Pages 89-109

4. Back Matter

   Pages 111-114

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This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restricted either to a purely medical perspective (focused mainly on treatment techniques) or to a criminological perspective (focused mainly on drug trafficking and organized crime).  

The social approach adopted in this volume challenges this dichotomy and analyzes both the social contexts to which drug use is related and the social and political consequences of the attitudes and policies adopted by governments and other social groups towards drug users, addressing topics such as: 

• Drugs and poverty 
• Drugs and gender
• Drugs and race
• Drugs and territory
• Stigmatization of drug use
• Prohibitionism

Given its broad and innovative approach, Drugs and Social Context - Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs will be of interest for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals, since the study of the social aspects of drug use is central to everyone who deals with the issue.

• Drug use
• Drug abuse
• Drug addiction
• Drug dependence
• Alcoholism
• Social aspects of drug use
• Psychosocial approach to drug use
• Drugs and prohibition
• Drugs and poverty
• Drugs and gender
• Drugs and race
• Social stigma and drug use
• Drugs and human rights
• Drug abuse prevention
• War on drugs
• Drugs and consummer society
• Drugs and market economy
• Drug markets
• Drugs and media
• Drug policies

• Department of Psychology, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

  Telmo Mota Ronzani

Telmo Mota Ronzani is a professor of the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz Fora, Brazil.  Dr. Ronzani holds a PhD in Sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo and is an international expert in the area of alcohol and other drugs. He has published 6 books, 43 chapters and 101 scientific papers in the field, is an ad hoc advisor to the Brazilian government in the drug policy area and works as a collaborator and assessor of international organisms on drugs such as World Health Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Inter-American Drug Control Commission (CICAD).

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