Drugs, society, and behavior 96/97 / editor, Hugh T. Wilson
Imprint
Guilford, Con. : Dushkin Publishing Group, c1996
Edition
11th ed
Descript
272 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
CONTENT
Living with Drugs: Opium, Cocaine, and Marijuana in American History ; Alcohol in America ; Worldwide Drug Scourge: the Expanding Trade in Illiclt Drugs ; Global Tobacco Epidemic ; Global Reach: the Threat of International Drug Trafficking ; What are Some of the Historic Milestones in Early U.S. Drug Control efforts? -- Understanding how Drugs Work-Use, Dependence, and Addiction: Is Nicotine Addictive? it Depends on Whose Criteria you Use ; Addictive Drugs: the Cigarette experience ; Brain by Design ; Prescription for Trouble: When Medications Don't Mix ; Hooked/Not Hooked: Why Isn't Everyone an Addict? -- Major Drugs of Use and Abuse: Selling Pot: the Pitfalls of Marijuana Reform ; Alcohol in Perspective ; Heroin, Be the Death of Me ; Wired in California -- Other Trends and Patterns in Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings ; Are America's College Students Majoring in Booze? ; Choose Your Poison ; Mail-Order Muscles ; Still the Drugs Sit There -- Drugs and Crime: Killer Cowboys: The Violent Saga of the City's Deadliest Drug Gang ; Cocaine Money Market ; Reducing Crime through Street-Level Drug Enforcement ; Colombia's Drugs Business: The Wages of Prohibition ; Drugs, Alcohol, and Violence: Joined at the Hip ; Homicide in New York City: Cocaine Use and Firearms -- Measuring the Social Costs of Drugs: Pushing Drugs to Doctors ; It's Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco, Stupid! ; Crackpot Ideas ; Crack Investigation ; Drug Sentencing Frenzy -- Creating and Sustaining Effective Drug Control Policy: Marijuana and the Law ; Why Drugs Keep Flowing: Too Little Emphasis on Treating Heavy Users ; Drug War and Clinton's Policy Shift ; Toward a Policy on Drugs ; Military's Counterdrug Policy Restructured ; For Addicts, Alternatives to prison ; Teenage Smoking: Fact and Fiction ; Alcohol and Other Drugs-Toward a More Rational and Consistent Policy ; Will Legalizing Drugs Benefit Public Health? ; Golden Triangle's New King -- Prevention and Treatment: Is Drug Abuse Treatment Effective? ; Back from the Drink ; 'Harm Reduction' Approach May Be Middle Ground ; New Drug Approval Approach Boosts Fight against Heroin Addiction ; Alcohol, Drug Addiction Recovery Rate Can Be Doubled with Program of Nutritional Support ; D.A.R.E. Bedeviled