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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse
Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are
currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting
public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to
disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in
usage, national and global policymakers are turning to addiction
science for guidance on how to create evidence-based drug policy.
Drug Policy and the Public Good is an objective analytical basis on
which to build global drug policies. It presents the accumulated
scientific knowledge on drug use in relation to policy development
on a national and international level. By also revealing new
epidemiological data on the global dimensions of drug misuse, it
questions existing regulations and highlights the growing need for
evidence-based, realistic, and coordinated drug policy. A critical
review of cumulative scientific evidence, Drug Policy and the
Public Good discusses four areas of drug policy; primary prevention
programs in schools and other settings; supply reduction programs,
including legal enforcement and drug interdiction; treatment
interventions and harm reduction approaches; and control of the
legal market through prescription drug regimes. In addition, it
analyses the current state of global drug policy, and advocates
improvements in the drafting of public health policy. Drug Policy
and the Public Good is a global source of information and
inspiration for policymakers involved in public health and social
welfare. Presenting new research on illicit and prescription drug
use, it is also an essential tool for academics, and a significant
contribution to the translation of addiction research into
effective drug policy.
This important book was the first serious work of philosophy to
address the question: Do adults have a moral right to use drugs for
recreational purposes? Many critics of the 'war on drugs' denounce
law enforcement as counterproductive and ineffective. Douglas Husak
argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults
who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against
such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a
polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that
takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the
United States today. The author is careful to describe the
properties a recreational drug would have to possess before the
state would be justified in prohibiting it. Since criminal laws
against the use of recreational drugs are justified neither by the
harm users cause to themselves nor by the harm users cause to each
other, Professor Husak concludes that such laws are, in almost all
cases, unjustified.
Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book
tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug
use, and how you can help them stay safe. It covers everything from
what the effects are and why young people take drugs, to how to
negotiate drug rules and ways to prevent and minimise harm. An easy
to use section contains factual information about various drugs,
covering a description of each drug, street names, a brief history,
legal status, availability, extent of use and cost, effects,
possible harms, and harm reduction advice. The newest and emerging
drugs, such as legal highs, are included, as well as illegal drugs,
alcohol, caffeine and tobacco. If you are working with or
supporting young people or are a parent or carer, this is the book
you need to help you understand drugs and respond positively and
effectively to young people's drug use.
Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era
anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin
addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the
American Junkie examines how psychiatristsand psychologists
produced a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with
inherently flawed personalities caught in the grip of a dependency
from which few would ever escape. Their portrayal of the tough
urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug
prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the
American heroin addict, or junkie, more, not less, precarious in
the wake of Progressive Era reforms. Weaving together the accounts
of addicts and researchers, Acker examines how the construction of
addiction in the early twentieth century was strongly influenced by
the professional concerns of psychiatrists seeking to increase
their medical authority; by the disciplinary ambitions of
pharmacologists to build a drug development infrastructure; and by
the American Medical Association's campaign to reduce prescriptions
of opiates and to absolve physicians in private practice from the
necessity of treating difficult addicts as patients. In contrast,
early sociological studies of heroin addicts formed a basis for
criticizing the criminalization of addiction. By 1940, Acker
concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate
addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until
the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s
prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public
policy.
Many teenagers will come into contact with drugs, but do they know
all the facts about drugs? What should they do if they feel
pressured into taking drugs? Do they know the effects of taking
drugs, and what the consequences might be? This resource is packed
with activities that inform young people about drugs, encourage
them to think and talk about their values and attitudes to drugs,
and help them make positive choices. The engaging activities
explore different types of drugs and their effects, and issues such
as risks, consequences, peer pressure, attitudes to drug-taking,
and drugs and the media. This second edition is fully updated and
contains many new activities. With fun and imaginative activities
ranging from ice-breakers and quizzes to role-play and
poster-making, this book is suitable for use with young people aged
13-19, in groups and on-to-one. Teachers, youth workers, drug
support workers, youth offending teams and social workers will all
find this an invaluable resource.
This textbook surveys the current knowledge on substance use
disorders (SUD), summarizing scientific evidence from numerous
fields. It uses a biopsychosocial framework to integrate the many
factors that contribute to addictions, from genetic
predispositions, neurological responses caused by drugs,
co-occurring psychiatric disorders, personality traits, and
developmental conditions to cultural influences. Real-life
vignettes and first-person accounts build understanding of the
lived experience of addiction. The currently accepted practices for
diagnosis and treatment are presented, including the role of
12-step programmes and other mutual-assistance groups. The text
also investigates the research methods that form the foundation of
evidence-based knowledge. The main body text is augmented by study
guideposts such as learning objectives, review exercises,
highlighted key terms, and chapter summaries, which enable more
efficient comprehension and retention of the book's material.
Substance Use and Family Violence provides readers with a better
understanding of how and why substance use and violent behavior can
co-occur and specifically, how the relationship between the two
play out across a range of familial relationships. The text focuses
on four main domains in which substance use and violence affect
families: substance use and interpersonal violence, substance use
and intimate partner violence, substance use and child neglect and
abuse, and substance use and elder neglect and abuse. Providing
both historical context and contemporary evidence, the volume uses
peer-reviewed literature, theories, and interdisciplinary
perspectives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scope
of each problem, who it impacts, and effective strategies for both
preventing violent behavior and intervening to stop its spread.
Substance Use and Family Violence is part of the Cognella Series on
Family and Gender-Based Violence, an interdisciplinary collection
of textbooks edited by Claire Renzetti, Ph.D. The titles feature
cross-cultural perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and
interventions, and timely research on family and gender-based
violence.
Globalization and attendant modernization has increased both the
supply and the demand for drugs around the world. Drug abuse is no
longer the concern of only the developed world. Countries without
histories of drug use, particularly developing countries, are now
reporting problems of abuse because they have become transit points
for international drug trafficking. Because the problem is now
worldwide, a global strategy is needed for identifying, analyzing
and developing strategies to deal with drug abuse and the
associated problems for health and safety. This volume reviews the
international status of drug abuse. Specific topics covered include
drug abuse in the developing world, emerging drugs and poly drug
use; gateway drugs, cultural views of drug use and state of the art
methodologies employed in research on drug abuse.
In a searing critique of the War on Drugs and other attempts to
eradicate "getting high," Lenson ventures outside the conventional
genres of drug writing and looks at the drug debate from a lost,
and often forbidden, point of view: the user's. Walking a fine line
between the antidrug hysteria prevalent in our culture and an
uncritical advocacy of drug use, he describes in provocative detail
the experiences and dynamics of drugs of pleasure and desire. "Drug
epicurean David Lenson claims the 'Just Say No' campaign of the
Reagan years was an attempt to explicitly end rational discourse on
the subject. The man's own whacked-out but brilliant 'discourse, '
On Drugs makes philosophical points about narcotics that also apply
to java and hooch. Lenson argues that once all mood-altering
substances are eliminated, sobriety becomes a meaningless term."
--Voice Literary Supplement "On Drugs is heterodox and iconoclastic
to the core."--Boston Phoenix "In the national debate and
reevaluation of attitudes toward drugs, this is a different kind of
contribution, one that is speculative, discursive, and visionary."
--Library Journal "Lenson's magnificent book is a perceptive
mapping of the rippling waves of undiscovered solar systems within
our brain. It will comfort the fearful and guide the unprepared. A
classic!" --Timothy Leary "Lenson analyzes our culture's love-hate
relationship with mood-altering substances from the user's point of
view in On Drugs. He writes about the differences between 'drugs of
desire' (mainly cocaine, crack, and speed) and 'drugs of pleasure'
(mainly marijuana and hallucinogens. The former he sees as
reflecting the main ideology of Western culture--consumerism--in
that frequent users tend to fixate on acquiring more to the
exclusion of everything else, while the latter tend to interdict
the consumerist mind-set by letting users savor everyday activities
and objects already at hand." --Utne Reader "The best work I've
read on drugs comes from outside the cultural studies-loop. In his
remarkable On Drugs, David Lenson, who teaches comparative
literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, uses a
phenomenological approach to describe the effects of various drugs.
What does it feel like to be high on pot, coke, LSD? What, if
anything, is to be gained from them? What are the costs? What
attracts individuals to different drugs? One of Lenson's theses,
brilliant and controversial, is that some kinds of drugs deliver us
from the consumer world view into realms of contemplation--and are
officially despised in part for doing so. What the guardians of
official culture cannot tolerate, Lenson suggests, is any form of
consciousnes that rises above getting and spending. What are we to
do about the drug crisis? Lenson's advice is invaluable: Throw
words at it, he says, lots of words. We need to use the
cultural-studies movement to break the intellectual and classroom
silence on drugs. We need to re-educate ourselves about drugs, and
in so doing help educate our students." --Chronicle of Higher
Education David Lenson is professor of comparative literature at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a rock and
blues musician who has played saxophone with John Lee Hooker, Buddy
Guy, and Junior Wells.
Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a
multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight.
Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been
official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and
much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy,
according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct
results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme
violence in different parts of the world, the backing of
dictatorships, and surging drug addiction globally. And now the
Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces
against any softening of the conflict. Pills, Powder, and Smoke
investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA
agents, and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling
through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines, and
Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war,
why it's so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it. In
reporting on the frontlines across the globe - from the streets of
London's King's Cross to the killing fields of Central America to
major cocaine transit routes in West Africa - Loewenstein reveals
how the War on Drugs has become the most deadly war in modern
times.
When "The Natural History of Alcoholism" was first published in
1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important
contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first
edition of Alcoholic Anonymous's Big Book. George Vaillant took on
the crucial questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a
disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from
others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics
can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600
individuals followed for over forty years, Vaillant's monumental
study offered new and authoritative answers to all of these
questions.
In this updated version of his classic book Vaillant returns to
the same subjects with the perspective gained from fifteen years of
further follow-up. Alcoholics who had been studied to age 50 in the
earlier book have now reached age 65 and beyond, and Vaillant
reassesses what we know about alcoholism in light of both their
experiences and the many new studies of the disease by other
researchers. The result is a sharper focus on the nature and course
of this devastating disorder as well as a sounder foundation for
the assessment of various treatments.
Syringe exchange programs and safe injection services are
outside-the-box interventions increasingly being used by
governments, nonprofits and citizens to address dire issues
percolating in tandem with America's burgeoning opioid epidemic.
People who inject drugs (PWID)-almost a million Americans
annually-commonly use painkillers such as heroin and fentanyl, as
well as methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates and cocaine.
Yet the users themselves are often obscured or marginalized by the
bigger picture. This collection of essays covers policies and
practices aimed at preventing both opioid-related deaths and
related infections of hepatitis and HIV.
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding
rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This state-of-the-art
book brings together leading experts to describe what treatment and
prevention would look like if it were based on the best science
available. The volume incorporates developmental, neurobiological,
genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives. Tightly
edited chapters summarize current thinking on the nature and causes
of alcohol and other drug problems; discuss what works at the
individual, family, and societal levels; and offer robust
principles for developing more effective, humane treatments and
services.
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