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Living with Drugs
- 1st Edition - November 13, 2020
- Authors: Alessandro Stella, Anne Coppel
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 5 4 8 - 3 1 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 9 8 5 - 9
Living with Drugs explores topics surrounding their control, use and risk of misuse. The conclusions in this book are drawn from the seminar held at the EHESS in Paris during th… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLiving with Drugs explores topics surrounding their control, use and risk of misuse. The conclusions in this book are drawn from the seminar held at the EHESS in Paris during the years 2015-2017. It involved anthropologists, sociologists, historians, philosophers, economists, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, health center workers, community activists, users and former drug users. The seminar, like the resulting book, is based on a transversal approach to disciplines, space and time, and a confluence of academic, practical and experiential knowledge.
- Details the progress of French research and public debates on French and international drug policy
- Includes the input of human and social sciences and the expertise of health professionals and activists
Researchers and students in human and social sciences; researchers, practitioners and activists in the field of drugs; political and administrative decision-makers and activists on drug policy, legalization of cannabis, HIV, Human Rights, self-help organization prevention. The broad public directly or indirectly concerned by the drug issue
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 13, 2020
- Imprint: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9781785483172
- eBook ISBN: 9780128229859
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Alessandro Stella
Alessandro Stella is Research Director at CNRS and Professor at EHESS, France. Having studied workers’ revolts, slavery and interbreeding, gender relations and sexuality, in recent years he has devoted himself to research in the field of drugs.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Director, CNRS, EHESS, Paris, FranceAC
Anne Coppel
Anne Coppel is an activist in drug law reform and human rights. Now retired, she was formerly President of the Association Francaise de Reduction des Risques (AFR), and a public health sociologist with a focus on drug policy, HIV/AIDS and sex workers.
Affiliations and expertise
Retired Researcher