This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from 'energy drinks' and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to 'problematic' drug use.

Fiona Hutton is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand. She has taught and researched in the academic discipline of Criminology - specifically in the areas of criminological theory, gender, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs - for the past twenty years.

This book considers the global discourses and debates about 'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered, alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new, critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this book in their broadest sense; from 'energy drinks' and other legal drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to 'problematic' drug use.

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Fiona Hutton is Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University, New Zealand. She has taught and researched in the academic discipline of Criminology - specifically in the areas of criminological theory, gender, youth crime and cultures, drug policy, harm reduction, alcohol and other drugs - for the past twenty years.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: IntroductionFiona Hutton
PART 1'Drugs' and Intoxication
Chapter 2: Alcohol and IntoxicationAntonia Lyons and Kate Kersey
Chapter 3: Smoking And Intoxication: From Control To The BuzzHelen Keane
Chapter 4Illicit drugs and intoxicationAngus Bancroft
Chapter 5New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and Intoxication Fiona Hutton
Chapter 6Alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED) and intoxication Nic Droste, Amy Peacock, Amy Pennay and Peter Miller
PART 2Diverse intoxications
Chapter 7Sexualities and Intoxication: To Be Intoxicated Is To Still Be Me, Just A Little Blurry: Drugs, Enhancement and Transformation In LGBTQ CulturesKira Pienaar, Dan Murphy, Kane Race, Toby Lea
Chapter 8Ethnicities And IntoxicationSarah Herbert and Tim McCreanor
Chapter 9Femininities And Intoxication Fiona Hutton
Chapter 10Masculinities And Intoxication: Notes Towards A Co-Constitutive ApproachDavid Moore
PART 3Representations of Intoxication
Chapter 11Media and Intoxication: Media Representations of The Intoxicated Tammy Ayres and Stuart Taylor
Chapter 12Social Media and Intoxication: Tweaker Nation: Intoxication And Social MediaAndy Rudock
PART 4Responses to intoxication
Chapter 13Societal Responses To IntoxicationRobin Room
Chapter 14Intoxication and Harm ReductionAdrian Barton
Index