Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia (eBook)

Nick Crofts, Fifa Rahman (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
370 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8038-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book gathers perspectives from across Asia into one place, allowing for effective advocacy. It offers a single source of material that can be used by health professionals in East and Southeast Asia on drug policy and explains recent changes towards harm reduction and treatment modalities to the general public in East and Southeast Asia.

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Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent policy shifts, especially harm reduction responses to the devastating drug-associated HIV epidemics. It explores further necessary reform, especially in regard to the abysmally inhuman current emphasis on detention and the death penalty for drug offences, and present the most recent evidence on effective and humane approaches to drug treatments. As the first comprehensive collection on illicit drug and harm reduction in East and Southeast Asia, it will be a vital resource for health professionals, policymakers, and others working thereand elsewhereon drug policy reform. As the first comprehensive collection on illicit drugs and harm reduction in East and Southeast Asia, it will be a vital resource for health professionals, policymakers, and others working on East and Southeast Asiaand elsewhereon drug policy.

Autor

FifaRahman is policy manager at the Malaysian AIDS Council. Nick Crofts is director of the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health.

Inhalt

ForewordIntroductionChapter 3: Historical Perspectives of Drug Use in AsiaChapter 4: Harm Reduction is Good Public HealthChapter 5: Human Rights and Drug PolicyChapter 6: Drug Users and ImprisonmentChapter 7: Law Enforcement and Drug Policy in Southeast AsiaChapter 8: Effective Development and Effective Drug Control are Interdependent: the example of Southeast Asia Chapter 9: Illicit drug policy in Southeast Asia – The Users’ PerspectiveChapter 10: Harm Reduction: The Islamic PerspectiveChapter 11: HIV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection among People who Inject Drugs in East and Southeast AsiaChapter 12: Unpacking Compulsory ‘Rehabilitation’ in Asia: Problems and Possible SolutionsChapter 13: Responding to ATS use in East and Southeast AsiaChapter 14: Case Study No. 1: Harm Reduction and Drug Policy in Thailand – One Step Forward, Two Steps BackChapter 15: Case Study No. 2: Drug Policy in TaiwanChapter 16: Case Study No. 3: Emerging from a Black Box: Drug Policymaking in VietnamChapter 17: Case Study No. 4: Drug Policy in ChinaChapter 18: Case Study No. 5: Compulsory Drug Rehabilitation in ChinaChapter 19: Alternatives to Criminal Justice: Drug Courts, Drug Diversion, and DecriminalisationChapter 20: Capital Punishment for Drug OffencesChapter 21: Drug Treatment Across AsiaChapter 22: The Way Forward

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2013
• Co-Autor: Joanne Csete, Kate Dolan, Jimmy Dorabjee, Jonathan Freelemyer, Holly Hagan, Faisal Ibrahim, David Jacka, Steve James, Don C. Des Jarlais, Karyn Kaplan, Mohd Zaman Khan, S.S. Lee, Dean Lewis, Jih-Heng Li, Priya Mannava, Rebecca McKetin, Geoff Monaghan, Fifa Rahman, Gary Reid, Ana Rodas, Richard Schottenfeld, Pascal Tanguay, Nicholas Thomson, Nick Thomson, Susan Trevaskes, Nicole Turner, B. Vicknasingam, Thu Vuong, Mohamad Firdaus Zakaria, Sasha Zegenhagen, Simon Baldwin, Sarah Biddulph, Heidi Bramson, Marek Chawarski, Nick Crofts
• Vorwort: Mike Trace, Marina Mahathir
• Zusatzinfo: 18 Illustrations including: - 13 Black & White Illustrations; - 5 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: AIDS • Asian Studies • Drug policy • East Asia • education, families, and health • globalization and migration • Harm Reducation • Harm reduction • Human Rights • Law enforcement • Migration • Southeast Asia • War on Drugs
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8038-X / 073918038X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8038-9 / 9780739180389