02836nam a2200445Ii 4500 9781787564879 UtOrBLW 20251029120724.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 181017s2018 enk 001 0 eng d 9781787564879 (e-book) 9781787564893 (ePUB) UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW HV5801 .C65 2018 MBNH bicssc MED078000 bisacsh 364.6 Collapse of the global order on drugs : from UNGASS 2016 to Review 2019 / edited by Axel Klein and Blaine Stothard. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (xxi, 304 pages) ; cm text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. This book describes the events, activities and negotiations leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on international drug policy. A range of respected authors from International institutions, academia and civil society organisations detail the background to the negotiations and the outcome; and possible future scenarios for continued reform and change at the High Level Review in 2019. The chapters include consideration of the positions taken by blocs and nation-states at all points on the prohibition reform continuum. Topics covered include discussions on the importance of human rights, access to essential medicines and the role played by cannabis in revealing the contradictions and divisions in both national and international contexts. The break-down of the previous international consensus on 'the world drug problem' is clearly described and analysed, as is the slow progress being made to the adoption of a human rights and health-based approach to currently illegal drugs. Consideration is also given to the nations and arguments which continue to defend prohibition and its repressive impacts on national populations, and the prioritising of geo-politics over population health this represents in practice. There are lessons and examples here for international politics and national policy reform. Print version record Drug control. 60433 Drug control International cooperation. 60434 Drug abuse. 60435 Medical, Public Health. bisacsh 57352 Personal & public health. bicssc 59526 Klein, Axel, editor. 60436 Stothard, Blaine, editor. 60437 9781787564886 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787564879 51759 51759