Heroin in the Age of Crack-Cocaine

Klappentext This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'. Zusammenfassung This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA! as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention! treatment! distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users! this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - James A Inciardi and Lana D Harrison The Re-Emergence of Heroin in the Age of Crack-Cocaine Heroin Use in the United States - Timothy Kinlock, Thomas E Hanlon and David N Nurco History and Development The Heroin Street Addict - James A Inciardi, Duane C McBride and Hilary L Surratt Profiling a National Population The Initiation of the Use of Heroin in the Age of Crack - Dale D Chitwood, Mary Comerford and Norman L Weatherby Heroin Patterns and Trajectories in an African American Cohort (1969-1990) - Ann F Brunswick and Stephen P Titus Trends in Heroin Use among Manhattan Arrestees from the Heroin and Crack Eras - Bruce D Johnson and Andrew Golub Trends in the Non-Injected Use of Heroin and Factors Associated with the Transition to Injecting - Alan Neaigus et al Methadone Maintenance Treatment - Jerome J Platt et al Its Development and Effectiveness after Thirty Years `Hustling¿ within the Clinic - Geoffrey Hunt and Marsha Rosenbaum Consumer Perspectives on Methadone Maintenance Treatment The New Heroin Users in the USA - Jean-Paul Grund What Lessons Can Be Learned from the Diffusion of Heroin Inhalation in The Netherlands To Prevent Large Scale Transitions to Injecting Drug Use ...

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• Authors: Lana D. Harrison, James A. Inciardi, James A. Harrison Inciardi, INCIARDI JAMES HARRISON LANA D
• Assisted by: Lana D. Harrison (Editor), Harrison Lana D. (Editor), James A. Inciardi (Editor), Inciardi James A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.1998
• EAN: 9780761904236
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0423-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Drugs, Health, and Social Policy; Graduate Survival Skills; Graduate Survival Skills; Drugs, Health, and Social Policy; Drugs, Health, and Social Poli
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Criminology & Criminal Justice