Browse Hierarchy CRIM6004: Dealing with Drugs: Control and Intoxication

This module explores and challenges some of the widely-held assumptions around psychoactive drugs, their uses and the social controls imposed upon them. It makes use of criminological, sociological, historical and policy insights to challenge students to think about the complex relationships between public morality, the individual body and acts of consumption. After setting the theoretical foundations and discussing 'drugs' as an object of regulatory policy, the module moves on to more practical questions on how to mitigate the harms of substance use when they do occur, on what alternative regulation models to the dominant `war on drugs? paradigm might look like and on the possible futures of 'chemscapes' i.e. innovation on the synthetic drug scene.