The Politics of Addiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Sarah G. Mars

   Pages 1-5

3. 1965–2010: A Background Sketch

   • Sarah G. Mars

   Pages 6-25

4. Prescribing and Proscribing: The Treatment and Rehabilitation Report

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   Pages 26-43

5. Defining ‘Good Clinical Practice’

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   Pages 44-64

6. Ambiguous Justice: The General Medical Council and Dr Ann Dally

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   Pages 65-88

7. ‘Friendly’ Visits and ‘Evil Men’: The Home Office Drugs Inspectorate

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   Pages 89-116

8. Unifying Hierarchs and Fragmenting Individualists: Three Professional Groups

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   Pages 117-146

9. Guidelines and the Licensing Question

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   Pages 147-166

10. Conclusion

    • Sarah G. Mars

    Pages 167-180

11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-260

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The Politics of Addiction  examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process.

• addiction
• England
• media
• politics
• profession

• Heroin Price and Purity Outcomes Study, University of San Francisco, USA

  Sarah G. Mars

• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

  Sarah G. Mars

SARAH MARS is the Qualitative Project Director, Heroin Price and Purity Outcomes Study, at the University of San Francisco, California. She read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, and received a PhD from the University of London. Since contributing to various drug policy reports, she has worked on the history of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at the University of California, San Francisco and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Policies and ethics