This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Understanding Drugs in Society
• Drugs and Society - Henry H. Brownstein
• The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society
• Alcohol: Wide-Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses - Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room
• Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of US Policy and Perception - Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques
• Heroin and Other Opiates - Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon
• Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? - Paul Gootenberg
• Methamphetamine - Ralph A. Weisheit
• Prescription Drugs - Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson
• Designer Drugs - Dina Perrone
• Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society
• Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem - Peter J. Venturelli
• Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction - Stephen J. Bahr and John P. Hoffmann
• The Intersection between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders - Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers and Bridget A. Hearon
• Studying Drugs in Society
• Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities - Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill
• Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society - Eric L. Sevigny and Brian Fuleihan
• What We Know and Do Not Know about Drugs and Public Health and Safety
• What Has Been Learned from Research on the Drugs–Crime Connection? - Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards
• The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health - Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall
• Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics - Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda
• Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context - Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy
• Drugs and Adverse Social Experience
• Drugs and Violent Crime - Henry H. Brownstein
• Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationships - Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers
• Markets and Distribution Systems: The Birth, Growth, and Transformation of UK Drug Markets - Tiggey May and Bina Bhardwa
• Drugs as an Illicit Enterprise
• The Criminalization of (Some) Drug-Involved People - Neil McKeganey
• The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution - Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe-Laidler
• Displacement Effects of Supply-Reduction Policies in Latin America: A Tipping Point in Cocaine Trafficking, 2006–2008 - Juan Carlos Garzón and John Bailey
• Responding to the Problem and Problems of Drugs in Society
• Drug Law Enforcement - Andrew Golub, Alex S. Bennett, and Luther C. Elliott
• Drug Abuse Prevention through Early Childhood Intervention - Elizabeth B. Robertson, Belinda E. Sims, and Eve E. Reider
• Dealing with Drug Users: Treatment - TaLisa J. Carter and Daniel O'Connell
• Drug Policy in the United States: A Dynamic Multilevel Experimental Environment - Duane C. McBride and Yvonne Terry-McElrath