Reviews : Drug Use and Misuse: Cultural Perspectives GRIFFITH EDWARDS, AWNI ARIF AND JEROME JAFFE (EDS) Croom Helm, 1983; £16.95; hb; pp285
| Published date | 01 June 1984 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058403100218 |
| Date | 01 June 1984 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
commitment
and compassion. It contains the sort
Drug Use and Misuse: Cultural
of knowledge every probation officer should have
Perspectives
about his patch before he takes on a single case
GRIFFITH EDWARDS, AWNI ARIF AND JEROME
Reading this, I realised how many mistakes I have
JAFFE (EDS)
made in assessing clients’ attitudes and choices
Croom Helm, 1983; £16.95; hb; pp285
through both generalising and specifying too
You can read this book like a tourist, seeing
much.
glimpses of the lwes of elderly Chinese heroin
TIM CHAPMAN
addicts, washed up in New York having ’lost their
Probation Officer, Belfast
papers’ m
the San Francisco earthquake or ofganja
smokers in Jamaica, rural agricultural workers
using quite differently from middle class students.
Prejudice & Pride: Discrimination against
You can travel small towns in the Andes where
gay people in modern Britain
coca leaves replace the complimentary After
BRUCE GALLOWAY (ED)
Eights with the restaurant bill
RKP, 1983; £5.95, pb; pp228.
Or you can read it on a more comprehensive
A
series of essays by gay people about discrim-
level, as ’a travelogue with the purpose of explora-
ination, each takes an area of life or an institution
tion rather than mere
tounsm’, putting together the
and analyses the gay person’s experience of it. The
strands of cultural and religious belief, social and
subjects are home, school, work, violence, the law,
economic structure wluch
combme
to produce cer-
the police and the courts, prison, the church,
tam
kmds of licit and ilhcit drug use m
a
certam kmd
medicine and the media. They give a good picture
of
society. Then you can go gurther to look at the
of the advances that have been made
in the last fifty
cultural functions of drug use, the symbolic mean-
years, and of the considerable way there is yet to
ings of anti-drug crusades and how drug use
go. Whilst being thorough, reahsric and occa-
becomes defined as problematic. Then you can
sionally angry, it is never...
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