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Susan C.A Boyd Heroin (Paperback)

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Item Length: 20mm Country of Origin: CA gtin13: 9781773635163 ISBN: 9781773635163 Book Title: Heroin Publication Name: Heroin Author: Susan C.A Boyd Item Height: 25mm Release Year: 2022 EAN: 9781773635163 Format: Paperback Item Width: 1mm Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Subtitle: An Illustrated History Genre: Law & Politics Language: English Topic: Society & Culture Release Date: 06/15/2022

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Further Details Title: Heroin Condition: New Description: Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and to the decades of resistance to harm-reduction policies. Heroin, discovered in 1898, was heralded as an important medicine and successfully marketed as a pain reliever and cough suppressant. Until the early 1950s, heroin was prescribed for therapeutic use in Canada. Yet, illegal heroin use became the focus of drug prohibition advocates and law enforcement, who painted it as highly addictive and destructive. Systemic racism was the impetus for our first anti-heroin laws; the race, gender and class of users influenced drug control, which, by the 1930s, became the focus of law enforcement. Flawed ideas about heroin and people who use the drug have shaped drug law and policy for decades. This book is informed by documentary evidence and the experiences of people who use/used heroin, drug user unions and harm-reduction advocates. These sources highlight the structural violence of drug policy that uses prohibition and criminalization as the main response to drug use. Author: Susan C.A Boyd EAN: 9781773635163 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: CA ISBN: 9781773635163 Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Language: English Item Height: 25mm Item Length: 20mm Item Width: 1mm Genre: Law & Politics Subtitle: An Illustrated History Release Date: 06/15/2022 Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Year: 2022 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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