Judging drugs : key issues in law and society / edited by Simon Flacks, Kate Seear

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flacks, Simon, editor.

Seear, Kate, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Law and legislation.

Drug abuse.

Drugs--Law and legislation.

Drugs.

Substance abuse--Law and legislation.

Substance abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Every day, judges determine vital questions about 'addiction', 'drugs', and the rights of those who use them. Despite the law's crucial role in handling drug 'problems', and in shaping drug practices, effects and outcomes, drug scholars have often overlooked case law. In a rapidly changing drug policy landscape, how is the law managing drug effects and harms, stigma, addiction, agency and responsibility? Why do we regulate drugs? Are drug offenders responsible for their actions? Is drug use a disability? Is drug treatment a human right? Do drugs cause harm? And might drug law itself be harmful? Authors in this volume take a variety of approaches to these questions and more. Drawing on critical theory, all consider new ways of thinking about 'drug problems'. This vital new collection enables a deeper, critical understanding of how the law 'works' to shape knowledge about, as well as 'judge', drug use and its effects"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : troubling judgments / Simon Flacks and Kate Seear

What is an e-cigarette? Comparison and resemblance in tobacco control / Helen Keane

Remembering Poccum : stigma, suffering, torture and rupture after the death of Veronica Nelson / Kate Seear

Violence, alcohol and the making of psychosis / Simon Flacks

The undeclared war on drugs in the post-Soviet limbo / Alexandra Dmitrieva and Vladimir Stepanov

From crack house to supervised consumption site : overdose and the politics of (false) equivalency in the United States / Shana Harris

Policing maintenance : judicial restrictions on medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) as a violation of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) / Nancy D. Campbell

‘This is only the beginning’ : drug-induced homicide, a test case and the construction of death-worlds in the US overdose crisis / Allison V. Schlosser

‘Speaking legally’ to rule out emergency claims in Swedish cannabis cases / Mats Ekendahl

Rethinking the sexual subject : assembling intoxication, gender and consent in the law / Renae Fomiatti, Kiran Pienaar, and Gemma Nourse

Revisiting the entrepreneurial ‘dealer’ : the case of Shiny Flakes / Aysel Sultan

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Judging drugs

ISBN:

9781009713368

1009713361

9781009713399

1009713396

OCLC:

1584385537

Publisher Number:

CIPO000362972

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license