Research Catalog

Title

The American drug scene : an anthology / [edited by] James A. Inciardi, Karen McElrath.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Roxbury Pub., c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Inciardi, James A.
• McElrath, Karen, 1959-

Description

xviii, 505 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Drug abuse > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I Theoretical Perspectives on Drug Use and Addiction: Why People Take Drugs / Andrew Weil -- A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction / Alfred R. Lindesmith -- Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction / Jennifer L. Goode -- The Use of Marijuana for Pleasure: A Replication of Howard S. Becker's Study of Marijuana Use / Michael L. Hirsch, Randall W. Conforti, and Carolyn J. Graney -- Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century / Mara L. Keire -- Sociopharmacology of Drug Use: Initial Thoughts / Samuel R. Friedman -- Part II Alcohol and Tobacco: A Brief History of Alcohol / Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi -- Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse / Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky -- College Binge Drinking in the 1990s: A Continuing Problem / Henry Wechsler, Jae-Eun Lee, Meichun Kuo, and Hang Lee -- Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It? / Mark Nichter.
• Part III. Marijuana: Marijuana: Assassin of Youth / Harry J. Anslinger and Courtney Ryley Cooper -- Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition / Lester Grinspoon -- 'Fry': A Study of Adolescents' Use of Embalming Fluid With Marijuana and Tobacco / William N. Elwood -- The Power of 420 / Karen B. Halnon -- Part IV Narcotics, Injection Drug Use, and HIV/AIDS: 'Dope Fiend' Mythology / Alfred R. Lindesmith -- OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug? / James A. Inciardi and Jennifer L. Goode -- Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street / Edward Preble and John J. Casey -- Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research With Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C / Todd G. Pierce -- Termination of an Established Needle Exchange: A Study of Claims and Their Impact / Robert S. Broadhead, Yael Van Hulst, and Douglas D. Heckathorn -- Part V. Cocaine and Other Stimulants: America's First Cocaine Epidemic / David F Musto.
• African Americans, Crack, and Crime / James A. Inciardi and Hilary L. Surratt -- Cocaine-Exposed Infants and the Criminalization of Pregnancy / Hilary L. Surratt and James A. Inciardi -- History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States / Marissa A. Miller -- 'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic / Philip Jenkins -- Part VI. Hallucinogens and Other Psychoactive Drugs: Rise of Hallucinogen Use / Dana Hunt -- Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine: New Trends in Date-Rape Drugs / Christine A. Saum, Nicole L. Mott, and Erik F. Dietz -- Circuit Party Attendance, Club Drug Use, and Unsafe Sex in Gay Men / Andrew M. Mattison ... [et al.] -- Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City / Stephen E. Lankenau and Michael C. Clatts.
• Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach / Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey -- Part VII. Drugs and Crime: The Drugs-Crime Connection / David N. Nurco, Timothy W. Kinlock, and Thomas E. Hanlon -- Drug Use and Street Crime in Miami: An (Almost) Twenty-Year Retrospective / James A. Inciardi and Anne E. Pottieger -- The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework / Paul J. Goldstein -- Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change? / Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly -- Part VIII. Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment: Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education / Marsha Rosenbaum -- Advances in Therapeutic Communities / National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Methadone Maintenance: A Theoretical Perspective / Vincent P. Dole and Marie Nyswander.
• The Elephant That No One Sees: Natural Recovery Among Middle-Class Addicts / Robert Granfield and William Cloud -- Part IX. Policy Considerations: Commonsense Drug Policy / Ethan A. Nadelmann -- Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better? Some Consequences of Ignoring the Unattractive / Peter Reuter -- Legalizing Drugs: Would It Really Reduce Violent Crime? / James A. Inciardi -- Against the Legalization of Drugs / James Q. Wilson.

ISBN

193171908X

LCCN

^^2003064640

OCLC

• 53356643
• SCSB-12603038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library