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Land Fit For Heroin?

Drug policies prevention and practice

  • Textbook
  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Nicholas Dorn

    1. Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD), London, UK

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  2. Nigel South

    1. Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD), London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nicholas Dorn, Nigel South
    Pages 1-10

  3. Heroin today: commodity, consumption, control and care

    • ISDD Research and Development Unit
    Pages 11-34

  4. The war on heroin: British policy and the international trade in illicit drugs

    • Gerry Stimson
    Pages 35-61

  5. Social deprivation, unemployment and patterns of heroin use

    • Geoffrey Pearson
    Pages 62-94

  6. How families and communities respond to heroin

    • Martin Donoghoe, Nicholas Dorn, Christine James, Stephen Jones, Jane Ribbens, Nigel South
    Pages 95-124

  7. From treatment to rehabilitation — aspects of the evolution of British policy on the care of drug-takers

    • Susanne MacGregor, Betsy Ettorre
    Pages 125-145

  8. Reconciling policy and practice

    • Nicholas Dorn, Nigel South
    Pages 146-169

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 170-187
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (ISDD), London, UK

    Nicholas Dorn, Nigel South

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Land Fit For Heroin?

  • Book Subtitle: Drug policies prevention and practice

  • Editors: Nicholas Dorn, Nigel South

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18892-5

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 187

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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