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1 online resource (362 pages) |
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| Contents |
Cover; International Drug Control; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and maps; Tables and boxes; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; The global drug prohibition regime; On the right path? Differential metrics of success; Approaches and key themes; Plan of the book; 2: Soft defection and the domestic normalization of harm reduction; The mechanics of soft defection: harm reduction via glitches in the system; The domestic normalization of harm reduction; Opioid substitution therapy -- from law enforcement to public health. |
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Needle and syringe programmes -- grassroots and government initiativesControlled heroin prescription: long history, limited uptake; Drug consumption rooms: robust legal justification, limited uptake; Harm reduction and policy transfer; 'Condemned to pragmatism': the emergence of harm reduction as a core component of EU drug policy; Maastricht: changing the landscape; Harm reduction via triangulation; The impact of the 2005-08 Action Plan; Concluding discussion; 3: Harm reduction at the UN: member state tension and systemic dissonance. |
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Harm reduction at the CND, 1998-2009: schisms, science and suasionCountry and regional group statements; The dynamics of dissonance: regime (in)stability; Drug control, harm reduction and core UN values; Concluding discussion; 4: Cannabis, soft defection and regime weakening; Cannabis within the conventions: composite classification; First and second waves of soft defection; Prohibition with cautioning or diversion ('depenalization'); Prohibition with civil penalties ('decriminalization'); Medical marijuana control; Partial prohibition: de facto and de jure legalization. |
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Partial prohibition: de facto legalizationPartial prohibition: de jure legalization; Commonalities underpinning soft defection; The issue of cannabis at the CND, 1998-2009; Cannabis resolutions: the INCB and the diligent producer versus the 'lenient' consumer state dichotomy; Cannabis as the 'most vulnerable point in the whole multilateral edifice'; Dronabinol and the WHO; Concluding discussion; 5: Defending the regime: the International Narcotics Control Board; The INCB and its place within the international drug control system; Defence via the Annual Report. |
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Inconsistent positions on policy debatesSelective use of the available evidence base; Selective focus of subject matter; Exceeding mandate; Defence by other means: missions, letters and misuse of expert roles; Coca and the conventions: the hardening of the INCB's prohibitionist stance; Reactions to moves to 'un-schedule' coca; Explaining INCB behaviour during the UNGASS decade; Concluding discussion; 6: Beyond regime weakening? Lessons from the UNGASS decade; Rationales for regime modernization; Treaty reform on technical and scientific grounds: cannabis and coca. |
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Treaty reform on performance grounds: failure to achieve core objectives and the generation of counterproductive impacts. |
| Summary |
The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug control -- International cooperation.
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Drug control -- International cooperation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bewley-Taylor, David R. International Drug Control : Consensus Fractured. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107014978 |
| ISBN |
9781139377256 |
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1139377256 |
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1107641284 |
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9781107641280 |
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9781139057424 (electronic book) |
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1139057421 (electronic book) |
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9781139380119 (electronic book) |
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1139380117 (electronic book) |
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9781139375825 |
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1139375822 |
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9781107014978 |
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1107014972 |
| Standard No. |
9786613641007 |
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