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The sociology of American drug use
- Author
- Faupel, Charles E.
- Title
- The sociology of American drug use / Charles E. Faupel, Alan M. Horowitz, Greg S. Weaver.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Description
- xii, 596 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Horowitz, Alan M. (Alan Mark), 1952- Weaver, Gregory.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The sociological study of drug use
- A brief history of drug use and drug control in America
- Classifying psychoactive drugs
- Official and unofficial data sources
- Theoretical explanations for drug use and addiction
- Demographic correlates of drug use
- Institutional correlates of drug use
- Health correlates of drug use
- Economic correlates of drug use
- Cultural and subcultural correlates of drug use
- Violent and criminal correlates of drug use
- Legal responses to drug problems: prohibition, legalization, and decriminalization
- Therapeutic responses to drug problems: drug treatment
- Preventive responses to drug problems: drug education and drug testing
- Drug policy for the twenty-first century.
- Subject headings
- Substance abuse--Social aspects. Drug abuse--Social aspects.
- ISBN
- 9780195375282 (alk. paper) 0195375289 (alk. paper)