The Handbook of Drugs and Society
The Handbook of Drugs and Society
Editor: Brownstein, Henry H.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$195.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$292.50
ISBN: 978-1-11-872679-2
Category: Social Sciences - Contemporary Issues & Controversies
Image Count:
20
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
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