Chilling out : the cultural politics of substance consumption, youth and drug policy / Shane Blackman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackman, Shane J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Substance use.

Youth.

Substance abuse--Government policy.

Substance abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies. For the first time in this field, it combines a wide-ranging exploration of the global political and historical context with a detailed focus on youth culture, on the basis that young people are the primary target of drug prevention policies. Chilling Out provides a critical map of drugs, bringing together work on drugs as a source of political state repression and regulation of morality through medical discourse, work on drugs as cultural commodities in film,

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95081-1

0-335-22430-X

OCLC:

246970682