Research Catalog

Title

Geography and drug addiction / Yonette F. Thomas, Douglas Richardson, Ivan Cheung, editors ; foreword by Douglas Richardson.

Author

AAG/NIDA Symposium (2006 : Chicago, Ill.)

Publication

[Dordrecht] : Springer, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Thomas, Yonette F.
• Richardson, Douglas, 1950-
• Cheung, Ivan
• Association of American Geographers
• National Institute on Drug Abuse

Description

xxiii, 538 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Social Sciences, general
• Sociology
• Human Geography
• Geography
• Human geography
• Sociology
• Social sciences
• Epidemiology
• Geography
• Topography, Medical > methods
• Substance-Related Disorders > epidemiology
• Social Environment
• Models, Theoretical
• Behavior, Addictive
• Substance-Related Disorders > etiology
• Drug addiction > Etiology > Congresses
• Drug addiction > Social aspects > Congresses
• Drug addiction > Environmental aspects > Congresses
• Drug addiction > Mathematical models > Congresses
• Applied human geography > Congresses
• Medical geography > Congresses
• Geography (general)
• Compulsive Behavior

Genre/Form

Congress

Note

• Proceedings from jointly sponsored AAG/NIDA Geography and Drug Symposium.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-520) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Placing substance abuse / Sara McLafferty -- Integrating geography and social epidemiology in drug abuse research / Yonette Thomas, Douglas Richardson and Ivan Cheung -- Integrating GIS into the study of contextual factors affecting injection drug use along the Mexico/US border / Kimberly C. Brouwer [and others] -- The spatial context of adolescent alcohol use / Karen A. Snedker, Jerald R. Herting -- Migration patterns and substance use among young homeless travelers / Stephen E. Lankenau [and others] -- Residential mobility and drug use among parolees in San Diego, California and implications for policy / Meagan Cahill and Nancy LaVigne -- Social disorganization, alcohol, and drug markets and violence / Aniruddha Banerjee [and others] -- Integrated assessment of addiction epidemiology in Hong Kong, 1996-2005 / Shui Shan Lee and Phoebe TT Pang --^
• Residential segregation and the prevalence of injection drug use among black adult residents of US Metropolitan areas / Hannah L.F. Cooper [and others] -- The relationship of ecological containment and heroin practices / Avelardo Valdez and Alice Cepeda -- Comparing unintentional opioid poisoning mortality in metropolitan and not-metropolitan counties, United States, 1999-2003 / Nabarun Dasgupta, Michele Jonsson Funk and John S. Brownstein -- Spatial patterns of clandestine methamphetamine labs in Colorado Springs, Colorado / Max Lu and Jessica Burnum -- A therapeutic landscape? Contextualizing methamphetamine in North Dakota / Kevin Romig and Alex Feidler -- Are spatial variables important? The case of markets for multiple drugs in British Bengal / Siddharth Chandra and Aaron Swoboda -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates and heroin trafficking: fearful symmetries / Chris Beyrer --^
• Metropolitan area characteristics, injection drug use and HIV among injectors / Samuel R. Friedman [and others] -- Factors influencing drug use and HIV risk in two Nicaraguan cities / Michele G. Shedlin [and others] -- Drug use and HIV/AIDS: risk environments in post-soviet Russia / Dominique Moran -- Substance abuse and HIV in China / Xiushi Yang -- Placing the dynamics of syringe exchange programs in the United States / Barbara Tempalski -- The effect of individual, program, and neighborhood variables on continuity of treatment among dually diagnosed individuals / Gerald J. Stahler [and others] -- Exploring the reciprocal effects of substance abuse treatment provision and area substance abuse / Matthew E. Archibald -- Using a GIS framework to assess hurricane recovery needs of substance abuse center clients in Katrina- and Rita-affected areas / Traci Craig Green and Cynthia Pope -- Using GIS to identify drug markets and reduce drug-related violence / Eleazer D. Hunt [and others] --^
• Modeling the spatial patterns of substance and drug abuse in the US / Sucharita Gopal, Matt Adams, and Mark Vanelli -- Reconceptualizing sociogeographic context for the study of drug use, abuse, and addiction / Mei-Po Kwan [and others] -- Spatial analytic approaches to explaining the trends and patterns of drug overdose deaths / Charlie DiMaggio [and others].

ISBN

• 9781402085086 (alk. paper)
• 1402085087 (alk. paper)
• 9781402085093 (e-ISBN)
• 1402085095 (e-ISBN)

LCCN

^^2008925135

OCLC

• 231590361
• SCSB-11649507

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library