Substance Use and Abuse
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
207 pages
978-1-61530-413-4 (ISBN)
Description
Consumed for a wide range of reasons, substances that alter a person's mood and mind are widespread in most societies. Although many such substances initially had been valued for their medicinal properties, their usage can have health-endangering conseque
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Substance Use and Abuse
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 DRUG USE AND ABUSE
- DEFINING DRUG ABUSE
- CHARACTERISTICS OF DRUG USE AND ABUSE
- THE FUNCTIONS OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
- THE NATURE OF DRUG ADDICTION AND DEPENDENCE
- HISTORY OF DRUG CONTROL
- INTERNATIONAL CONTROLS
- NATIONAL CONTROLS
- EXTENT OF CONTEMPORARY DRUG ABUSE
- CHAPTER 2 SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF DRUG USE AND ABUSE
- CONFLICTING VALUES IN DRUG USE
- YOUTH AND DRUGS
- NARCOTICS IN THE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS
- ISSUES OF LEGALIZATION
- SPEAKING OUT ON DRUG DECRIMINALIZATION
- 1. PROPONENTS OF LEGALIZATION
- 2. THE IMPACT ON YOUTH
- 3. THE IMPACT OF DRUG PRICES
- DRUG ABUSE IN SPORTS
- STEROID USE IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
- STATEMENTS BEFORE CONGRESS
- CHAPTER 3 PSYCHOTROPIC AND HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS
- OPIUM AND ITS DERIVATIVES
- OPIUM ALKALOIDS
- PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF OPIATES
- MEANS OF ADMINISTRATION
- THERAPY FOR OPIATE DEPENDENCE
- HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS AND HALLUCINATION
- TYPES OF HALLUCINOGENS
- HISTORY OF HALLUCINOGENS
- PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
- HALLUCINOGEN USERS
- CHAPTER 4 NONNARCOTIC DRUGS, CANNABIS, AND PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS
- BARBITURATES, STIMULANTS, AND TRANQUILIZERS
- BARBITURATES
- STIMULANTS
- TRANQUILIZERS
- CANNABIS
- PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS AND PRACTICES
- GENE DOPING
- CHAPTER 5 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND HEALTH
- TYPES OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
- WINE
- BEER
- DISTILLED SPIRITS
- ALCOHOL AND THE INDIVIDUAL
- ABSORPTION THROUGH THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES
- PROCESSING IN THE LIVER
- ACCUMULATION IN THE BODY
- EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON THE BRAIN
- EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOUR
- BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION
- LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF DRINKING
- FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME
- CHAPTER 6 ALCOHOL AND SOCIETY
- ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN SOCIETY
- HISTORY OF ALCOHOL USE: EARLY SOCIETIES
- HISTORY OF ALCOHOL USE: CLASSICAL PEOPLES
- ALCOHOL IN MODERN SOCIETIES
- ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION WORLDWIDE
- ALCOHOL PROBLEMS AND CONTROLS
- INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS
- ALCOHOL CONTROL
- MODERN TRENDS IN UNDERSTANDING ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
- CHAPTER 7 ALCOHOLISM
- DEFINING ALCOHOLISM
- CAUSES OF ALCOHOLISM
- PREVALENCE OF ALCOHOLISM
- DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOLISM
- ACUTE DISEASES
- CHRONIC DISEASES
- TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM
- PHYSIOLOGICAL THERAPIES
- PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES
- SOCIAL TREATMENT
- RESULTS OF TREATMENT
- CHAPTER 8 SMOKING: TOBACCO AND HEALTH
- METHODS OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION
- CHEWING TOBACCO
- CIGARS
- SNUFF
- TOBACCO PIPE
- CIGARETTES
- SMOKING AND HEALTH
- HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING
- SMOKING CESSATION
- CHAPTER 9 SMOKING: PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
- SMOKING AND PUBLIC POLICY
- THE GOALS AND STRATEGIES OF PUBLIC POLICY ON SMOKING
- REGULATION
- TAXATION
- LITIGATION AGAINST THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY
- A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF SMOKING
- TOBACCO IN NEW WORLD CULTURE
- TOBACCO IN OLD WORLD CULTURE
- THE AGE OF THE CIGARETTE
- CONCLUSION
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
