Summary
Contents
How do we understand drug use? How are drugs related to our social worlds? How should drug use be understood, approached and dealt with? Insightful and illuminating, this book successfully discusses drugs in social contexts. In an elegant manner, the authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. Powerful and engaging, this book discusses main questions within the field of psychoactive drugs research, such as: Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people's social positions influence their individual involvement in drug use? This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as students and drug service practitioners in social work, social policy and nursing.
Drug Dealers
Drug Dealers
Drug dealer is the term attributed to individuals involved in the illegal supply of illicit drugs to others for profit or gain. While there is a common perception that drug dealers are essentially similar in character and type – a perception that is largely reflected in most legal systems – ‘the’ drug dealer is in fact an unhelpful way of understanding those involved in drug supply and can lead to a weakened response by the criminal justice system and a misunderstanding of the drug problem itself.
Just as we have seen when considering the drug market (see also 34 drug markets), something that is considered to be simple in character, origins and outcomes is in fact, when considered more closely, often not ...
