This authoritative overview of drugs and society today examines: whether a process of `normalization' of drugs and drug use is under way; the debate over prohibition versus legislation; `drugs' and `users' as `other' or `dangerous'; drugs and dance cultures; drug use among young women; images of `race' and drugs; medical responses to drugs; policing strategies and controlling drug users; drug control and sport; and the question of prohibition versus liberalization.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - Nigel South
Debating Drugs and Everyday Life
Normalization, Prohibition and 'Otherness'
PART TWO: CULTURES: FORMS AND REPRESENTATIONS
Dances with Drugs - Harry Shapiro
Pop Music, Drugs and Youth Culture
Drugs and Culture - Sheila Henderson
The Question of Gender
White Lines - Karim Murji
Culture, `Race' and Drugs
PART THREE: CONTROLS: POLICY, POLICING AND PROHIBITION
Medicine, Custom or Moral Fibre - Susanne MacGregor
Policy Responses to Drug Misuse
Drugs and Policing in Europe - Nicholas Dorn and Maggy Lee
From Low Streets to High Places
Controlling Drugs in Sport - Ross Coomber
Contradictions and Complexity
Drugs as a Password and the Law as a Drug - Vincenzo Ruggiero
Discussing the Legalization of Illicit Substances
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
Taking Tea with Noel - Michael Shiner and Tim Newburn
The Place and Meaning of Drug Use in Everyday Life
