Impact of Global Drug Policy on Women: Shifting the Needle

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. It argues that women are negatively and disproportionately affected by drug criminalization and enforcement, and calls for feminist and womens organizations to embrace drug policy reform and for international and national drug control authorities to better engage women as stakeholders.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 353 pages
\n Publication date: 19 November 2020
\n Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The international strategy of criminalizing the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and use of certain psychoactive substances has failed to achieve a 'drug-free world.' Examining the impact of drug criminalization and enforcement on a previously overlooked demographic, this edited collection argues that women are negatively and disproportionately affected by this flawed policy approach. Addressing the lack of attention on the experience of women, this collection details the challenges women face in accessing appropriate treatment and services, the stigmatization and marginalization resulting from engagement in illegal drug markets, the violence that women are exposed to, and the punitive sentences imposed on women for drug-related offenses. Bringing together an international group of academics, advocates, activists, and those with lived experience, the editors offer a rounded and realistic view from women's perspectives. In doing so, they facilitate a call for feminist and women's organizations to embrace drug policy reform, and for international and national-level drug control authorities to better engage women as stakeholders.

\n Weight: 512g\n
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781839828850\n \n