The American Drug Scene

* New to this edition; PART I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DRUG USE AND ADDICTION; 1. A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction, Alfred R. Lindesmith; 2. Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction, Jennifer L. Syvertsen; 3. 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; 4. Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century, Mara L. Keire; 5. Sociopharmacology of Drug Use: Initial Thoughts, Samuel R. Friedman; *6. The Social Impact of Drugs and the War on Drugs: The Social Construction of Drug Scares, Craig Reinarman; PART II. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO; 7. A Brief History of Alcohol, Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi; 8. Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse, Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky; *9. Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women, Amy M. Young, Michele Morales, Sean Esteban McCabe, Carol J. Boyd, and Hannah D'Arcy; 10. Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It?, Mark Nichter; PART III. MARIJUANA; 11. Marijuana: Assassin of Youth, Harry J. Anslinger and Courtney Ryley Cooper; 12. Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition, Lester Grinspoon; *13. Blunts and Blowtjes: Cannabis Use Practices in Two Cultural Settings and Their Implications for Secondary Prevention, Stephen J. Sifaneck, Charles D. Kaplan, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson; 14. The Power of 420, Karen B. Halnon; PART IV. HEROIN AND OTHER OPIATES; 15. 'Dope Fiend' Mythology, Alfred R. Lindesmith; 16. OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug?, James A. Inciardi and Jennifer L. Syvertsen; *17. The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky, Kenneth D. Tunnell; 18. Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street, Edward Preble and John J. Casey; 19. Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research with Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C., Todd G. Pierce; PART V. COCAINE AND CRACK; 20. America's First Cocaine Epidemic, David F. Musto; 21. African Americans, Crack, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt, and Steven P. Kurtz; *22. An Ethno-epidemiological Model for the Study of Trends in Illicit Drug Use: Reflections on the 'Emergence'of Crack Injection, Michael C. Clatts, Dorinda L. Welle, Lloyd A. Goldsamt, and Stephen E. Lankenau; *23. Refining Rock: Practical and Social Features of Self-Control among a Group of College-Student Crack Users, Curtis Jackson-Jacobs; PART VI. METHAMPHETAMINE AND OTHER STIMULANTS; 24. History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States, Marissa A. Miller; *25. A Very Childish Moral Panic: Ritalin, Toby Miller and Marie Claire Leger; 26. 'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic, Philip Jenkins; *27. Post-Circuit Blues: Motivations and Consequences of Crystal Meth Use Among Gay Men in Miami, Steven P. Kurtz; PART VII. DRUGS AND THE CLUB CULTURE; 28. Rise of Hallucinogen Use, Dana Hunt; *29. Conceptions of Risk in the Lives of Club Drug-Using Youth, Brian C. Kelly; 30. Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City, Stephen E. Lankenau and Michael C. Clatts; 31. Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey; PART VIII. DRUGS AND CRIME; 32. The Drugs-Crime Connection, David N. Nurco, Timothy W. Kinlock, and Thomas E.Hanlon; *33. Sex Work and Drug Use in a Subculture of Violence, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, Steven P. Kurtz, and Marion C. Kiley; 34. The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework, Paul J. Goldstein; 35. Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change?, Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly; PART IX. DRUG TREATMENT; *36. Gender-Specific Issues in the Treatment of Drug-Involved Women, Hilary L. Surratt; 37. Advances in Therapeutic Communities, National Institute on Drug Abuse; 38. Methadone Maintenance: A Theoretical Perspective, Vincent P. Dole and Marie Nyswander; 39. The Elephant That No One Sees: Natural Recovery Among Middle-Class Addicts, Robert Granfield and William Cloud; 40. Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drug; 41. Commonsense Drug Policy, Ethan A. Nadelmann; 42. Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better? Some Consequences of Ignoring the Unattractive, Peter Reuter; *43. Clinical and Societal Implications of Drug Legalization, Herbert D. Kleber and James A. Inciardi; *44. Safer Injection Facilities in North America: Their Place in Public Policy and Health Initiatives, Robert S. Broadhead, Thomas H. Kerr, Jean-Paul C. Grund, and Frederick L. Altice