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. Includes 28 original chapters with multi–disciplinary and international perspectives by top social and behavioral scientists Reviews current knowledge in the field, including key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological debates Identifies ongoing controversies in the field, emergent topics, and areas in need of further inquiry Discusses individual drugs as well as topics like physiological theories of drug use and abuse, public health implications of drugs, patterns of drugs and crime, international drug trade and trafficking, and designer drugs INDICE: List of Contributors .Contributor Biographies .Part I: Understanding Drugs in Society .1. Drugs in Society (Henry H. Brownstein) .Part II: The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society .2. Alcohol Wide–Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses (Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room) .3. Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of American Policy and Perception (Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques) .4. Heroin and Other Opiates (Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon) .5. Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? (Paul Gootenberg) .6. Methamphetamine (Ralph A. Weisheit) .7. Prescription Drugs (Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson) .8. Designer Drugs (Dina Perrone) .Part III: Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society .9. Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem (Peter Venturelli) .10. Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction (Stephen Bahr and John P. Hoffman) .11. The Intersection Between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders (Arielle Baskin–Sommers and Bridget Hearon) .Part IV: Studying Drugs in Society .12. Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities (Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill) .13. Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society (Eric L. Sevigny and Brian Fuleihan) .Part V: What We Know and Do Not Know about Drugs and Public Health and Safety .14. What has been learned from research on the drugs–crime connection? (Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards) .15. The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health (Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall) .16. Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics (Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda) .17. Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context (Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy) .Part VI: Drugs and Adverse Social Experience .18. Drugs and Violent Crime (Henry Brownstein) .19. Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationships (Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers) .20. Markets and Distribution Systems: The Birth, Growth and Transformation of UK Drug Markets (Tiggey May and Bina Bhardwa) .Part VII: Drugs as an Illicit Enterprise .21. The Criminalization of (Some) Drug Involved People (Neil McKegany) .22. The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution (Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe–Laidler) .23. Displacement Effects of Supply–Reduction Policies in Latin America: A Tipping Point in Cocaine Trafficking, 2006–2008 (Juan Carlos Garzón and John Bailey) .Part VIII: Responding to the Problem and Problems of Drugs in Society .24. Drug Law Enforcement (Andrew Golub, Alex S. Bennett, and Luther C. Elliott) .25. Drug Abuse Prevention through Early Childhood Intervention (Elizabeth B. Robertson, Belinda E. Sims, and Eve E. Reider) .26. Dealing With Drug Users: Treatment (TaLisa J. Carter and Daniel O Connell) .27. Drug Policy in the US: A Dynamic Multi–Level Experimental Environment (Duane C. McBride and Yvonne Terry–McElrath)
- ISBN: 978-1-118-72679-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 600
- Fecha Publicación: 23/11/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés