Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the quest...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019* ''''A riveting and urgent reckoning of colossal corruption.'''' - Philip Gourevitch...

In the published literature of madness, and its institutional management, the earliest English institutions for the mad have tended to be treated a...

In today's busy world, we can get caught up with the worries and stresses of life. We live in our heads, as we move at lightning pace from one thin...

A poignant autoethnography that reflects back forty years later on loving someone chronically ill.

Chris Stringman gambled, and lost, GBP130,000, destroying his savings, losing his car, and almost his house...but he managed to escape his addictio...

Ice. Methedrine. Crank. Crystal. Whatever its guise, the social and political contexts of methamphetamine share a certain uniqueness. Nicholas Pars...

A concise history of how American law has shaped-and been shaped by-the experience of contagion, taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colo...

Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the pow...

'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise,...

'Raw, unflinching, incredibly brave' - BBC Woman's Hour 'Visceral and gripping' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Coming Clean is a searingly ho...

After a trophy-laden and record-setting club and international career, England's greatest ever goalkeeper, Peter Shilton, could rightly look forwar...

'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein'Health is not som...