Drugs and Social Context

Part I. Drugs and Society

1. The Context of Drug Use in the Consumer Society
Telmo Mota Ronzani

2. The Stigmatization of Drug Use as Mechanism of Legitimation of Exclusion
Pollyanna Santos da Silveira, Joanna Gonçalves Andrade de Tostes, Hoi Ting Wan, Telmo Mota Ronzani, Patrick W. Corrigan

3. Social Effects of Prohibitionism in the Americas and New Drug Policies
Marcelo Rossal

Part II. Social Issues

4. Drugs and Poverty: Interfaces of Oppression in the Capitalist World
Verônica Morais Ximenes, Fernando Santana de Paiva, James Ferreira Moura, Pedro Henrique Antunes da Costa

5. Drugs and Gender
Nuria Romo-Avilés

6. Drugs and Race
Adriana Eiko Matsumoto, Marcio Farias, Silvio Luiz de Almeida

7. (Des)Occupation of Urban and Rural Spaces, Gentrification and Drug Use
Magda Dimenstein, Marcelo Dalla Vecchia, João Paulo Macedo, Francisco Inacio Bastos

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Public Health, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality