… most drug-aware and drugexperienced society in history. Millions of people of all backgrounds
around the world take illicit drugs … intoxication of one kind or another is not, as a society, …

… Intoxication and Society sets out to supplement the contemporary discourse surrounding
intoxication … the social construction of intoxication that will provide a secure basis for analysis as …

… a form of addiction?) and recreational drugs. We have become a medicated society
where the distinction between foods, therapeutic drugs, psychoactive substances and life-enhancing …

… societies recognize and deal with this threat of latency is quite as integral to their cultures of
intoxication … politicized concept of drugs is replaced with the vocabulary of intoxication. The …

… For our purposes, intoxication addresses both alcohol and drugs and allows for a blurring
or, better still a willing acceptance of the need to move between legal and illegal distinctions. …

… our government and society deal with the drug problem, and clearly such changes vary from
one presidential administration to the next. One of the ironies of the drug problem is that, for …

… Given these developments, it would appear that a new form of chemical intoxication is
developing and that we as a society are not prepared to walk away from it, but, in fact, are …

… In the media discourse of postwar Western societies the spectre of feckless, drug-taking …
drug-taking and the notions of risk as leisure frequently held by the young people that take them. …

… of intoxication, and in many ways emerges from that process. Using William Hogarth’s 1751
prints Beer Street and Gin Lane as its focal point, this paper argues that intoxication … of drug …

… 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 good. …