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our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, & drugs

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An edition of Demons (2013)

Demons

our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, & drugs

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Binge drinking, particularly in young women, has become big news. Debates about the regulation and classification of cannabis are frequently voiced. Cigarette smoking is banned in public places, and emotive public health campaigns seek to reduce its use still further. Yet there are many sides to each of these arguments, and if we look back over the last 150 years, we see massive variety in the ways societies and states have related to drugs, drink, and tobacco. Virginia Berridge offers a much-needed long view, which helps illuminate our current concerns, and shows how three separate stories overlap and inter-connect. She takes us to the socially-acceptable opium dens of Dickens's London; to the absinthe craze of fin-de-siecle Paris. She asks whether prohibition in America proved to be helpful or harmful. She looks at how tobacco was promoted as a medicinal benefit. She considers the medical use of cannabis, LSD, and other drugs. And through all this, she traces the changes in scientific and medical knowledge. This is a complex story of whether, and how, the state should intervene. How do we balance the interests of personal freedom, public well-being, healthcare, and the economy? Is substance abuse a social issue, or a medical one? As governments, health services, and the World Health Organization grapple with these issues, the wisdom and experience of history can help map the way forward.

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Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
2013, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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2013, Oxford University Press
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2013, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: past and present
Culture: drugs for all
Social movements: temperance
The professionals: doctors and pharmacists
Fear: dens and degeneration
Economics and technology: the role of industry
Internationalism and war
Mass culture and subculture
The new public health
Convergence or divergence? public health and neuroscience
Hedonism or control?
Afterword: history and the future.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-273) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.2/9
Library of Congress
HV5801 .B465 2013, HV5801, HV5801 .B47 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 292 pages
Number of pages
292

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Open Library
OL26920589M
Internet Archive
demonsourchangin0000berr
ISBN 10
0199604983
ISBN 13
9780199604982
LCCN
2013940971
OCLC/WorldCat
865546806, 858309920

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