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The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s 2012th Edition
Author(s): S. Mars (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 20 Aug. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 273 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230221386
- ISBN-13: 9780230221383
Book Description
The Politics of Addiction examines power and policy-making in the context of a bitter conflict between private and publicly employed doctors treating addiction. Regulation was used by both the profession and the state to shape the treatment of addiction and who could provide it, with the media feeding into the process.
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About the Author
SARAH MARS is the Qualitative Project Director, Heroin Price and Purity Outcomes Study, at the University of San Francisco, California. She read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK, and received a PhD from the University of London. Since contributing to various drug policy reports, she has worked on the history of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at the University of California, San Francisco and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
