Research Handbook on Drugs and Society

Edited by Toby Seddon

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Research Handbook presents cutting-edge scholarship on key theoretical, conceptual and disciplinary approaches to drugs and society. It explores the socially and culturally pervasive nature of illicit drugs, demonstrating how the drug question bears all the distinctive hallmarks of a seemingly intractable ‘wicked problem’ and constitutes a major twenty-first century global challenge.

Keywords: Drugs; Addiction; Consumption; Intoxication; Society; Social Problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781802209136
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Researching drugs and society

Toby Seddon

Ch 2 Drugs

Toby Seddon

Ch 3 Intoxication

Phil Withington

Ch 4 Addiction

Peder Clark and Oisín Wall

Ch 5 The long view: Surveying the use of plant-based psychoactives in prehistoric societies

Elisa Guerra-Doce

Ch 6 Cannabis: A brief global historical biogeography

Chris Duvall

Ch 7 From opium to fentanyl: A global history

Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

Ch 8 Cocaine's variable past(s)

Paul Gootenberg

Ch 9 The origins and early evolution of the international drug control system: 1729–1967

John Collins

Ch 10 Anthropology

Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page

Ch 11 Economics

Jeffrey Miron and Pedro Aldighieri

Ch 12 Sociology

Karen Joe-Laidler and Kate Lowe

Ch 13 Psychology and neuroscience

Catharine Montgomery, Abigail K. Rose and Andrew J. Jones

Ch 14 Law and regulation

Toby Seddon

Ch 15 Science and technology studies

Nancy D. Campbell

Ch 16 Decolonial approaches to drugs and drug studies

Maziyar Ghiabi

Ch 17 Global trends: Reviewing 25 years of the United Nations World Drug Report

Toby Seddon

Ch 18 Drugs and crime: Documenting, explaining, and intervening in the relationship

Glenn D. Walters

Ch 19 Race, ethnicity and the global war on drugs

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

Ch 20 Sex differences, gendering and drugs

Beth Glover Reed, Yun Chen and Lauren Whitmer

Ch 21 Poverty, inequality and drugs

Susanne MacGregor and Aileen O’Gorman

Ch 22 Africa: Drug production, drug problems and the legacies of colonialism

Simon Howell, Clemence Rusenga, Gernot Klantschnig and Neil Carrier

Ch 23 The online drug market spectrum

James Martin and Andrew Childs

Ch 24 A psychedelic renaissance: Novel treatments for mental illnesses

David Nutt

Ch 25 Treatment, recovery and mutual aid: New directions

David Best, Satinder Jandu, Lisa Webster and Phil Hodgson

Ch 26 Research frontiers in the twenty-first century

Toby Seddon

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