A lot of attention has been devoted to the impacts of bio-energy, particularly biofuel production on developing countries. However, analysis is often done from a global perspective and/or with a focus on developed country bio-energy policies, regarding developing countries as passive receptors of actions in the North. The perspectives of developing countries are neglected, particularly the impa...

1Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia 2Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia 3Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, Director, WHO Collaborating Center in Mental Health Policy and Training, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia 4Fraser H...

national survey of drug addiction undertaken in Britain until the recent past. It is not only a point of departure for an understanding of modern British drug policy, but it is a culmination of certain nineteenth-century trends. Most significantly, the Rolleston Committee Report marks the political triumph of the "medical model" of drug addiction in Britain. However, that success was not inevit...