Drugs and Social Context ― Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs

This book goes beyond the traditional approaches to drug use and discusses the issue from a societal perspective, integrating contributions from different disciplines such as psychology, public health, anthropology, law, public policies and sociology to address specifically the social aspects of the phenomenon. Given its complexity, drug use demands a multidisciplinary approach from many different perspectives, but despite the vast literature about the topic, the majority of the books are restricted either to a purely medical perspective (focused mainly on treatment techniques) or to a criminological perspective (focused mainly on drug trafficking and organized crime).

• Drugs and poverty
• Drugs and gender
• Drugs and race
• Drugs and territory
• Stigmatization of drug use
• Prohibitionism

Given its broad and innovative approach, Drugs and Social Context - Social Perspectives on the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs will be of interest for researchers, clinicians and other health professionals, since the study of the social aspects of drug use is central to everyone who deals with the issue.

Telmo Mota Ronzani is a professor of the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz Fora, Brazil. Dr. Ronzani holds a PhD in Sciences from the Federal University of Sao Paulo and is an international expert in the area of alcohol and other drugs. He has published 6 books, 43 chapters and 101 scientific papers in the field, is an ad hoc advisor to the Brazilian government in the drug policy area and works as a collaborator and assessor of international organisms on drugs such as World Health Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Inter-American Drug Control Commission (CICAD).