Table of Contents
List of Contributors x
Notes on Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xxi
Part I Understanding Drugs in Society 1
1 Drugs and Society 3Henry H. Brownstein
Part II The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society 15
2 Alcohol: Wide-Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses 17Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room
3 Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of US Policy and Perception 53Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques
4 Heroin and Other Opiates 72Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon
5 Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? 90Paul Gootenberg
6 Methamphetamine 109Ralph A. Weisheit
7 Prescription Drugs 128Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson
8 Designer Drugs 149Dina Perrone
Part III Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society 175
9 Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem 177Peter J. Venturelli
10 Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction 197Stephen J. Bahr and John P. Hoffmann
11 The Intersection between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders 218Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers and Bridget A. Hearon
Part IV Studying Drugs in Society 237
12 Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities 239Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill
13 Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society 258Eric L. Sevigny and Brian Fuleihan
Part V What We Know and Do Not Know about Drugs and Public Health and Safety 283
14 What Has Been Learned from Research on the Drugs–Crime Connection? 285Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards
15 The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health 300Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall
16 Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics 320Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda
17 Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context 335Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy
Part VI Drugs and Adverse Social Experience 369
18 Drugs and Violent Crime 371Henry H. Brownstein
19 Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationships 387Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers
20 Markets and Distribution Systems: The Birth, Growth, and Transformation of UK Drug Markets 416Tiggey May and Bina Bhardwa
Part VII Drugs as an Illicit Enterprise 443
21 The Criminalization of (Some) Drug-Involved People 445Neil McKeganey
22 The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution 460Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe-Laidler
23 Displacement Effects of Supply-Reduction Policies in Latin America: A Tipping Point in Cocaine Trafficking, 2006–2008 482Juan Carlos Garzón and John Bailey
Part VIII Responding to the Problem and Problems of Drugs in Society 505
24 Drug Law Enforcement 507Andrew Golub, Alex S. Bennett, and Luther C. Elliott
25 Drug Abuse Prevention through Early Childhood Intervention 525Elizabeth B. Robertson, Belinda E. Sims, and Eve E. Reider
26 Dealing with Drug Users: Treatment 555TaLisa J. Carter and Daniel O’Connell
27 Drug Policy in the United States: A Dynamic Multilevel Experimental Environment 574Duane C. McBride and Yvonne Terry-McElrath
Index 594