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Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of modern Iran? How have drugs affected the formation of the Iranian state and its power dynamics? And how have governmental attempts at controlling and regulating illicit drugs affected drug consumption and addiction? By answering these questions, Maziyar Ghiabi suggests that the Islamic Republic of Iran's image as an inherently conservative state is not only misplaced and inaccurate, but in part a myth. In order to dispel this myth, he skilfully combines ethnographic narratives from drug users, vivid field observations from 'under the bridge', with archival material from the pre- and post-revolutionary era, statistics on drug arrests and interviews with public officials. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Drug control --- Drug abuse --- Government policy --- Drug use --- Recreational drug use --- Substance abuse --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- drugs; Iran; politics

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Drug Diplomacy is the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of the global drugs control regime. The book analyzes how the rules and regulations that encompass the drug question came to be framed. By examining the international historical aspects of the issue, the author addresses the many questions surrounding this global problem. Including coverage of substances from heroin and cocaine to morphine, stimulants, hallucinogens and alcohol, Drug Diplomacy addresses: * the historical development of drug laws, drug-control institutions, and attitudes abou

Drug control --- Drug abuse --- Drug use --- Substance abuse --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- History --- International cooperation --- Prevention --- Government policy

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Drug abuse --- Drug control --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Substance Abuse --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- Prevention of drug abuse --- Prevention --- Government policy

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The story of America's "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics - the country's first drug control agency, established in 1930 - began to depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores. U.S. policymakers had long viewed addiction and organized crime as profound domestic and transnational threats. Yet World War II presented new opportunities to implement drug control on a global scale. Skeptical of public health efforts to address demand, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics believed that reducing the global supply of drugs was the only way to contain the spread of addiction. In effect, America applied a foreign policy solution to a domestic social crisis, demonstrating how consistently policymakers have assumed that security at home can only be achieved through hegemony abroad. The result is a drug war that persists into the present day.

Drug control --- Drug enforcement --- Drug law enforcement --- Drug policy --- Drug traffic --- Drug traffic control --- Drugs --- Narcotics, Control of --- War on drugs --- Vice control --- History --- Government policy --- United States. --- FBN --- History.

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"Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Vice control --- Alcoholism --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Control of vice --- Law enforcement --- Police --- History --- History. --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- Intoxication, Alcohol --- Vice control - Great Britain - History - 19th century --- Alcoholism - Great Britain - History --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century --- Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901