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Author
Title
Drugs and rights / Douglas N. Husak.
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number
HV5801 .H84 1992
ISBN
0521427274 (pbk.)
0521417392 (hard)
0521417392 (hard)
Description
vii, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25316266
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
1
Drugs, drug use, and criminalization
9
The war on drugs
9
Medical and legal definitions of drugs
19
Legal regulation of drugs
27
Constitutional issues
37
Recreational drug use
44
The decriminalization movement
51
Arguments for criminalization
59
2
Drugs and harm to users
71
Consequentialism and drug use
74
Autonomy and drug use
81
Analogies
90
Addiction and autonomy
100
Addiction, slavery, and autonomy
117
"Soft" paternalism and drug use
130
"Hard" paternalism and drug use
138
Conclusion
141
3
Drugs and harm to others
145
Utilitarianism and drug use
147
The evaluative assumptions in utilitarianism
157
Harm and disutility
162
The nature of criminal harm
170
Anticipatory offenses
178
Drugs and crime
195
Conclusion
207
4
Restrictions on drug use
209
Local controls and the importance of community
212
Reasonable regulation of drug use
222
Special cases: Pregnant drug users
230
Adolescents and adults
243
A moral right to use drugs: Misinterpretations
251
Notes
257
Works cited
289
Index
307