Research Handbook on Drugs and Society

Edited by Toby Seddon, Professor of Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, UK

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction: Researching drugs and society 2Toby SeddonPART II KEY CONCEPTS2 Drugs 12Toby Seddon3 Intoxication 22Phil Withington4 Addiction 33Peder Clark and Oisín WallPART III HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES5 The long view: Surveying the use of plant-based psychoactives inprehistoric societies 47Elisa Guerra-Doce6 Cannabis: A brief global historical biogeography 59Chris Duvall7 From opium to fentanyl: A global history 71Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy8 Cocaine’s variable past(s) 84Paul Gootenberg9 The origins and early evolution of the international drug control system:1729-1967 95John CollinsPART IV THEORETICAL AND DISCIPLINARY LENSES10 Anthropology 109Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page11 Economics 122Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Aldighieri12 Sociology 134Karen Joe-Laidler and Kate Lowe13 Psychology and neuroscience 151Catharine Montgomery, Abigail K. Rose and Andrew J. Jones14 Law and regulation 164Toby Seddon15 Science and technology studies 175Nancy D. Campbell16 Decolonial approaches to drugs and drug studies 190Maziyar GhiabiPART V GLOBAL TRENDS AND PATTERNS17 Global trends: Reviewing 25 years of the United Nations World DrugReport 204Toby Seddon18 Drugs and crime: documenting, explaining, and intervening in therelationship 215Glenn D. Walters19 Race, ethnicity and the global war on drugs 230Anita Kalunta-Crumpton20 Sex differences, gendering and drugs 242Beth Glover Reed, Yun Chen and Lauren Whitmer21 Poverty, inequality and drugs 258Susanne MacGregor and Aileen O’Gorman22 Africa: Drug Production, Drug Problems and the Legacies of Colonialism 274Simon Howell, Clemence Rusenga, Gernot Klantschnig and Neil CarrierPART VI CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, INNOVATIONS, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES23 The online drug market spectrum 287James Martin and Andrew Childs24 A psychedelic renaissance: novel treatments for mental illnesses 298David Nutt25 Treatment, recovery and mutual aid: new directions 310David Best, Satinder Jandu, Lisa Webster and Phil HodgsonPART VII CONCLUSION26 Research frontiers in the twenty-first century 323Toby SeddonAfterword 331Toby Seddon

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