Drugs, addiction, and the law: policy, politics, and public health

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Drugs, addiction, and the law: policy, politics, and public health
المؤلفون: Cohen, Peter J., 1935-
بيانات النشر: Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2004.
سنة النشر: 2004
وصف مادي: xxix, 375 p. ; 26 cm.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Substance Abuse Detection., Public Health -- legislation & jurisprudence., Health Policy., Substance-Related Disorders., Legislation, Drug., Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States., Narcotic laws -- United States., Public health administration -- United States., Public health laws -- United States., Drug addicts -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States., Narcotic laws -- United States -- Cases., Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- United States., Legislation, Drug -- United States -- Legal Cases., Substance-Related Disorders -- United States -- Legal Cases., Health Policy -- United States -- Legal Cases., Public Health -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States -- Legal Cases., Substance Abuse Detection -- United States -- Legal Cases., Legal Cases., Trials, litigation, etc.
جغرافية الموضوع: United States.
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: The contrast between "legal" and "scientific" reasoning -- Public health, the law, and society -- Acute and chronic toxicity of some abusable drugs -- The history of attitudes towards illegal drugs -- The epidemiology of drug use -- The science of drug dependence (addiction) -- The conflict between individual autonomy and responsibility to society -- Illegal drugs : the doctor's dilemma -- Compulsory drug testing -- "Crack babies" and the Constitution : testing pregnant women for illegal drugs -- Disease and behavior under the law -- Crack, powder, and justice : illegal drugs and sentencing -- Civil commitment and compelled therapy -- Disability law and drug dependence : society's ambivalence -- Pot, peyote, and politics -- Treatment of drug dependence : a legal and public health perspective
Original Identifier: ocm54540185
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-0-89089-227-5
0-89089-227-X
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.009279059.3
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset