This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in
critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are …

This book is a comprehensive introduction to intoxication from alcohol and other drugs. In 12
chapters the authors introduce and discuss key issues related to intoxication, for example …

What images come to mind when you read the word 'intoxication'? What behaviour do you
associate with the word 'drunk'? When you hear the word 'drug', what images do you recall …

The Handbook is divided into 34 chapters across eight thematic sections covering a wide
range of issues, including the meanings of intoxicants; the social life of intoxicants; …

Intoxicants, substances that alter a person's mental and physiological state, are a continuing
obsession. In their effect on the mind and body, intoxicants go to the heart of what it means …

In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social
existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were …

Everyone knows what intoxication and drunkenness are, what they look like, how to define
and measure them and what their consequences are. At least we might assume so given the …

Any use of substances to produce intoxication carries with it the potential for harm. However,
intoxication is something that many people will experience in their lives, and for the majority …

As modern societies have encountered intoxication, they have sought to regulate and
criminalise it as a threat to public order, personal and economic development and the public …

These statements about the universal desire for intoxication and the pleasurable features of
intoxication may seem surprising given recent concerns about binge drinking and …