Assignment:
Create a 1500 words (no less than 1400) (not including references) write a critical essay providing an analysis of a case study on drugs.
Choose your case study from the following options;
Dwyer, R. 2011. ‘Chapter : The social life of smokes: Processes of exchange in aheroin marketplace' inFraser and Moore (eds), 2011. The Drug Effect: Health,Crime and Society. Melbourne: Cambridge U Press
Boyd, S. 2011. ‘Pleasure and pain: Representations of illegal drug consumption,addiction and trafficking in music, film and video' in Fraser and
Moore (eds), 2011. The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society. Melbourne: Cambridge U Press
Reinarman, C. 2011. ‘Cannabis in cultural and legal limbo: Criminalisation,legalisation and the mixed blessing of medicalization in the USA' in Fraser and Moore(eds), 2011. The Drug Effect: Health, Crime and Society. Melbourne: Cambridge UPress
Any chapter from Marc Lewis. 2011.Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A NeuroscientistExamines His Former Life on Drugs.Public Affairs
Use the below questions to guide you in writing your essay.-
What issues are raised by your case study?
How do they relate to topics covered in class and weekly readings so far?
What are the complex social processes and relations that surround theproduction and consumption of drugs?
Did your understanding of the issues surrounding drug use and production change throughout the semester? If so, how?