Law, Drugs and the Making of Addiction: Just Habits

by Kate Seear

Book Overview

This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.

Lawyers play a vital and largely underappreciated role in constituting legal certainties about substances and 'addiction', including links between alcohol and other drugs, and phenomena such as family violence. Such practices exacerbate, sustain and stabilise 'addicted' realities, with a range of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367727145
• ISBN13: 9780367727147
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"