Beating The Habit
Community anti-heroin campaigns and the legalisation debate
by David Michaelson
Beating the Habit looks at heroin use in a new way. It examines - more radically than ever before - the arguments around legalising heroin, and tells the unknown story of community anti-heroin campaigns.
Whether it was Scottish women in the 21st century or Chinese peasants in the 1930s, communities have come together time and again to organise against the drug economy.
The book comes to the surprising conclusion that campaigns run by figures as diverse as the American Black Panthers and Mahatma Gandhi in British-ruled India probably had more success in encouraging addicts to beat the habit than government-run 'Wars on Drugs' or medically-run methadone programmes.
Available in 2012.
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