EAN: 9783031191701

INTOXICATION - THOMAS THURNELL-READ MARK MONAGH...

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'? What behaviour do you associate
with the word 'drunk'? When you hear the word 'drug'  what images do you recall? This textbook
provides an essential and thorough grounding in debates about the role of intoxication in
contemporary society  from social and cultural perspectives. It examines intoxication in the
broadest sense as including both legal and illegal substances and both culturally accepted and
socially stigmatised practices. Given the pace of recent changes in policy and practice - from
the increasingly common legalisation of cannabis  to the recent trend of sobriety amongst
adolescents and young adults - this book stands out by offering both a through historical and
theoretical overview and a topical and forward looking exploration of current debates. It
adopts a multi-scale approach to examine wider patterns of change so it considers the
subjective experiences of the roleintoxication plays in the lives of individuals and groups  in
the construction of diverse identities and how this differs by age  gender and ethnicity. The
authors play particular attention to the way in which the state justifies interventions based
on moral  health and criminal justice discourses and also consider the role played by other
individuals and institutions  not least the mass media and the alcohol industry  in propagating
and challenging common sense explanations of intoxication. It speaks to undergraduates 
master's students and above  with a range of pedagogic features  and offers insights into
policy and practice.

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