China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context

by Bin Liang, Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu

Book Overview

In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was known for its national addiction to opium, but its drug-eradication campaigns from the 1950s to the 1970s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754676943
• ISBN13: 9780754676942
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"