Drug Addiction and Drug Policy:

This book is the culmination of five years of debate among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they b...

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Main Author: Brownsberger, William N. (Author, Contributor)
Other Authors: Boyum, David (Contributor), Caulkins, Jonathan P. (Contributor), HEYMANN, Philip B. (Editor), Heyman, Gene M. (Contributor), Heymann, Philip B. (Contributor), Kleiman, Mark A. R. (Contributor), Moore, Mark H. (Contributor), Reuter, Peter (Contributor), Satel, Sally L. (Contributor), Vaillant, George E. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2021]
Series:Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative
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Online Access:DE-1043
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Summary:This book is the culmination of five years of debate among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom, the authors show that these standard dichotomies are false
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:9780674038622
DOI:10.4159/9780674038622

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