
Understanding Drug Use and Abuse
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Substance Abuse: A Growing Social Problem
- Introduction to the study of drug abuse
- Perspectives and definitions
- The role of public policy
- The use of science
- Multivariate thinking and orientation
- Book content and organization
- 2 Prevalence of Drug Use and Abuse
- Drug use and abuse
- Variations in drug use and drug users
- Variations in use of major illicit drugs
- Implications of substance use disorder
- Emerging drug problems
- 3 Old and New Prohibitions Against Alcohol and Opiates
- Substances through time
- Toward prohibition
- Regulation and prohibition
- Outcomes of prohibition
- Prohibition and regulation compared
- The new prohibition: war on drugs
- The effects of the new prohibition
- Summary
- 4 Social Marketing Perspective
- The economics of drug trafficking and dealing
- Traffickers' and dealers' responses to prohibition
- Restrained and unrestrained markets
- Mass marketing of heroin: first wave
- Mass marketing of cocaine: second wave
- Conclusion
- Part II Theoretical Perspectives
- 5 Sociological Perspectives
- Importance of theory
- Structural theories of drug abuse
- Social psychological theories of drug abuse
- Social explanations: integrating theories and research
- 6 Criminological Perspectives
- The sociology of deviance
- From deviance to normalization
- Drugs and crime
- New criminologies of everyday life
- Conclusion
- 7 Psychological Perspectives
- Psychodynamic approaches
- A trauma-related approach: adverse childhood experiences
- Social learning
- Learning theory and behaviourism
- Cognitive psychology
- Family systems
- Summary
- 8 Physiological Perspectives
- The physical correlates of drug abuse
- How physiological drug addiction works
- Factors affecting addiction
- Examples of physiological research on drug abuse
- Looking forward
- Part III Responses
- 9 Public Policy: Criminal Justice
- Importance of public policy in drug use and addiction
- Historical development of the criminal justice approach
- Has criminalization worked? Reviewing the evidence
- Criminal justice and international human rights
- Alternatives to criminalization: global drug law reform experiments
- Conclusion
- 10 Public Policy: Public Health Responses
- Public health policy: harm reduction
- Harm-reduction interventions
- Public policy and drug abuse in China
- Public policy and drug abuse in the USA
- Public policy and drug abuse in the UK
- Public policy and drug abuse in Australia
- Public policy and drug abuse in Canada
- Public policy and drug abuse in Switzerland
- Public policy and drug abuse in the Netherlands
- Some comparative points
- 11 Prevention
- Who carries out prevention?
- Levels of prevention
- Level 1: knowledge
- Level 2: affective learning
- Level 3: prevention through normative social change
- How effective are normative interventions?
- 12 Treatment
- Psychotherapy
- Object relations
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- The social model
- Residential treatment
- Family therapy
- Natural recovery
- Part IV Conclusion
- 13 Recommendations and Afterthoughts
- Recommendations
- Evidence of effective interventions
- A worldwide challenge
- Efforts to reduce the supplies of drugs
- Returning to the economics of drug trafficking and dealing
- Afterthoughts
- New frontiers
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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