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Introduction : international drug policy in an era of growing complexity, challenge and tension / David R. Bewley-Taylor and Khalid Tinasti -- I. History of international drug control -- Foundations of the international drug control regime : nineteenth century to the Second World War / William B. McAllister -- The evolution of international drug control under the United Nations / Constanza Sánchez-Avilés and Ondrej Ditrych -- Drug consumers and the formation of the international drug control apparatus /
Christopher Hallam -- II. The geospatial dimensions of drug policy -- North American drug policy: American and Canadian developments from the early twentieth century to today / Katharine Neill Harris -- Latin America and the Caribbean : complicity and legacy of a long war /
Juan Carlos Garzón and Ana María Rueda -- Western and Central Europe: towards a cohesive model for drug policies? /
Renaud Colson and Henri Bergeron -- Documenting human rights violations is not enough to reform archaic drug policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia /
Mikhail Golichenko -- Drug policy in Africa: a history of global and regional dynamics /
Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig -- Drug use, policies and prohibition in Muslim countries /
Khalid Tinasti -- Drug policy in Asia : the origins and extremities of prohibition /
Gloria Lai and Claudia Stoicescu -- The changing tides of drug consumption, supply and drug policy in Oceania /
Amber Marks and Caitlin Hughes -- III. Emerging tensions within the UN drug control system and beyond --

The rise and fall of the “drug free world” narrative /
Steve Rolles -- Drug control and human rights : parallel universes, universal parallels /
Julie Hannah and Rick Lines -- Public health and international drug control : harm reduction and access to controlled medicines /

Jennifer Hasselgard-Rowe, Naomi Burke-Shyne and Ann Fordham -- Drugs and development : drug policies and the Global South /
Julia Buxton -- Bolivia, coca, culture and colonialism /


Zoe Pearson -- Regulating cannabis in Uruguay, the United States and Canada : is
a social justice framework possible? / Zara Snapp and Jorge Herrera Valderrábano -- IV. Future challenges -- The search for new drug policy metrics /
Nazlee Maghsoudi, Justine Tanguay and Dan Werb -- The NPS imposters, merging and emerging drug markets and the contribution of drug checking /
Fiona Measham -- Drug cryptomarket futures : structure, function and evolution in response to law enforcement actions /
Patrick Shortis, Judith Aldridge and Monica J. Barratt.