Governing the Heroin Trade (Law Ethics and Governance)

✍ Scribed by Melissa Bull

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the historical, economic and political context for the current prohibition of particular drugs. The study investigates the problem of drug control providing a systematic analysis of the development of the international system of regulation. Identifying the political rationalities that provided the basis of that system, it positions these moral justifications for exercising power in relation to the practical programs that put them into practice. The objective of the work is not simply to catalogue the techniques and strategies employed in the process of governing illicit drugs, but also to note the failures, unintended consequences and other difficulties associated with getting such programs to work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
The Prehistory of Regulation......Page 11
Opium as an Everyday Commodity......Page 12
Finding Questions where Others had Located Answers......Page 18
The Conditions of Possibility for the Regulation of Opiates......Page 24
Addiction as Disease......Page 38
Opium and Cultural Consciousness......Page 50
Conclusion......Page 55
3 Preserving the Nation State......Page 58
Reason of State......Page 59
The Degeneration of the Dynasty......Page 61
Bringing China in......Page 67
The International System of Control......Page 70
Prohibition in Defence of the Realm......Page 72
The American Case: From Harrison to McCarthy......Page 77
The Cold War on Drugs......Page 83
Contemporary Rationalities of Regulation: The International Treaties......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 89
4 An Ungoverned Domain......Page 92
The System of International Control......Page 93
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (SCoND), 1961......Page 100
The SCoND and the Constitution of a Governable Domain......Page 109
Unplanned Outcomes and Unintended Consequences: The Illicit Supply as an Ungoverned Domain?......Page 112
Taming the Ungoverned Domain: The United Nations Convention on the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, 1988......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 123
5 Supply in Demand......Page 126
Making up Methadone Maintenance Treatment......Page 131
Methadone Maintenance in Australia......Page 136
Governing Methadone......Page 139
Governing through Methadone......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 164
6 Security and Freedom: Rethinking Drug Control......Page 166
Changing Horizons of the Problem of Heroin......Page 171
References......Page 176
A......Page 192
B......Page 193
D......Page 194
H......Page 195
L......Page 196
M......Page 197
P......Page 198
R......Page 199
S......Page 200
U......Page 201
Z......Page 202