Handling complexity: constituting the relationship between intoxication and violence in Australian alcohol policy discourse

Intoxication and its effects are a central feature of alcohol and other drug policy, with intoxication generally presented as a universal and singular state. Crucially, it is constituted as a threat to health and social order, both a harm in itself and a source of other harms. The exclusion of the m...

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1. VerfasserIn: Moore, David (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Keane, Helen ; Duncan, Duane ; Lenton, Emily
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2023
In: Routledge handbook of intoxicants and intoxication
Jahr: 2023, Seiten: 484-498
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