Caribbean drugs : from criminalization to harm reduction /: from criminalization to harm reduction. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Axel Klein, Marcus Day and Anthony Harriot.
• Other Names: Klein, Axel, 1961-; Day, Marcus; Harriott, Anthony; Drugscope.
• Contents: Part I: Background and Context; Introduction -- Axel Klein, Marcus Day, Anthony Harriott 1. The Search for a New Drug Policy Framework: From the Barbados Plan of action to the Ganja Commission -- Axel Klein Part II: Policy Responses; 2. Criminalizing Cultural Practice: The Case of Ganja in Jamaica -- Barry Chevannes 3. Drugs Court in Jamaica: Means to an End or End in Itself? -- Anthony Harriott and Marlyn Jones 4. Drugs and the Prison System: Impact of Legislative Changes on the Prison Crises in the Commonwealth Caribbean Region -- Wendy Singh 5. Rethinking Privatisation: The State and Illegal Drugs in the Commonwealth Caribbean -- Philip Nanton Part III: Interventions on the Ground; 6. Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation in Jamaica and the Caribean -- Howard Gough 7. What's the Hook? Diary of a Drop-in Centre or Rehabilitation Before Abstinence -- Marcus Day 8. Cayman Drug Council: Practising Harm Reduction in a Zero Tolerance Society -- Catherine Chestnut 9. Ethical Dilemmas Surrounding Drug Research: Pitfalls of Gathering Sensitive Information in the Caribbean Context -- Jennifer Hillebrand Part IV: Responses to Opportunity; 10. Illicit Drug Markets in the Caribbean: Analysis of Information on Drug Flows Through the Region -- Michael Platzer 11. The Ganja Industry and Alternative Development in St Vincent and the Grenadines -- Axel Klein
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 362.2/9/09729; Drug abuse -- Caribbean Area; Drug abuse -- Caribbean Area -- Prevention; Drug control -- Caribbean Area; Drug abuse; Drug abuse -- Prevention; Drug control; Caribbean Area
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848136229; 1848136226
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