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Informationen zum Autor Henry H. Brownstein is a Senior Fellow in the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice Studies Department at NORC- at the University of Chicago, USA and Professor and Director of the Center for Public Policy at the Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He is the author of several books, including The Methamphetamine Industry in America: Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs (2014), Contemporary Drug Policy (2013), and The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime (2000) . Klappentext This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice.* Includes 28 original chapters with multi-disciplinary and international perspectives by top social and behavioral scientists* Reviews current knowledge in the field, including key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological debates* Identifies ongoing controversies in the field, emergent topics, and areas in need of further inquiry* Discusses individual drugs as well as topics like physiological theories of drug use and abuse, public health implications of drugs, patterns of drugs and crime, international drug trade and trafficking, and designer drugs Zusammenfassung This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors x Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xxi Part I Understanding Drugs in Society 1 1 Drugs and Society 3 Henry H. Brownstein Part II The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society 15 2 Alcohol: Wide?]Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses 17 Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room 3 Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of US Policy and Perception 53 Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques 4 Heroin and Other Opiates 72 Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon 5 Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? 90 Paul Gootenberg 6 Methamphetamine 109 Ralph A. Weisheit 7 Prescription Drugs 128 Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson 8 Designer Drugs 149 Dina Perrone Part III Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society 175 9 Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem 177 Peter J. Venturelli 10 Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction 197 Stephen J. Bahr and John P. Hoffmann 11 The Intersection between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders 218 Arielle R. Baskin?]Sommers and Bridget A. Hearon Part IV Studying Drugs in Society 237 12 Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities 239 Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill 13 Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society 258 Eric 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? 285 Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards 15 The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health 300 Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall 16 Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics 320 Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda 17 Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context 335 Paul Draus and Juliette Roddy Part VI Drugs and Adverse Social Experience 369 18 Drugs and Violent Crime 371 Henry H. Brownstein 19 Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationsh...
