Cannabis Use and Dependence: Public Health and Public Policy

by Wayne Hall & Rosalie Liccardo Pacula  RRP $99.00  - Our Price $89.10 HB

The use of cannabis in the late twentieth and this century is an area of medical and moral controversy. Despite its illegality, cannabis is the most widely used drug after alcohol and tobacco among young adults in the USA, Europe and Australia. This book explores the relationship between health policy, public health and the law regarding cannabis use. It assesses the impact of illegality in drug use and relates this to contemporary policy analysis in Australia, the UK, the US and other developed societies. It evaluates current debates about ‘safe use’ and ‘harm minimization’ approaches, as well as examining the experiences of different prevention, treatment and education policies.

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Tobacco : Science, Policy and Public Health

edited by Peter Boyle  RRP $220  - Our Price $198 HB

This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies, looking at lessons learnt to help set health policy. Directed at an international public health and epidemiology audience including health economists and those interested in tobacco control, the book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents.

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