By Shane Blackman
- How are drug war politics, drug prevention, popular culture and drug consumption interconnected?
- What are the major contradictions, assumptions and silences within the moral arguments of drug policy makers?
- What are the implications for the viability of drugs policy?
Chilling Out provides a critical map of drugs, bringing together work on drugs as a source of political state repression and regulation of morality through medical discourse, work on drugs as cultural commodities in film, popular music, advertising and tourism, work on 'drug normalisation', subcultural deviance and the politics of drug education.
This clear and enlightening text for sociology, health and media and cultural studies courses argues for an holistic and a critical understanding of drugs in society, which can be the basis for a more coherent approach to drug control. Practitioners and policy makers will find it a thought-provoking and informative source.