Drugs and Development: The Global Impact on Sustainable Growth and Human Rights - Softcover

Merrill Singer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577665724 ISBN 13: 9781577665724

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 2008

Synopsis

In a globalized world, people, ideas, organizations, and commodities—including drugs—flow rapidly from place to place and are tied together through the market, advanced communication systems, and rapid transportation technologies. Drug distribution and use both reflect and reinforce an exploitive political economy that has connected the West with developing nations since the rise of capitalism. Singer's fast-moving, authoritative treatment examines the impact of legal and illegal drug distribution and use on relations among richer and poorer nations, in particular their influence on social and economic development in the Third World. Guided by a critical perspective and drawing on his own crosscultural research in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Singer analyzes drug-related developmental challenges around the world and assesses the impact of licit and illicit drug use, drug trafficking, the War on Drugs, and drug-related health consequences like HIV/AIDS.

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From the Publisher:

Also by Merrill Singer and available from Waveland Press: Drugging the Poor: Legal and Illegal Drugs and Social Inequality (ISBN 9781577664949); The Face of Social Suffering: The Life History of a Street Drug Addict (ISBN 9781577664321); and Something Dangerous: Emergent and Changing Illicit Drug Use and Community Health (ISBN 9781577663768);

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"An insightful and critical analysis of legal and illicit drug marketing within the contexts of the colonial legacy and neoliberalism as factors in continued Third World underdevelopment and violations of human dignity in lesser-developed nations." -- Hans Baer, University of Melbourne

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1577665724
• ISBN 13: 9781577665724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120