The American Drug Scene: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195332466 ISBN 13: 9780195332469

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Inciardi and McElrath's popular anthology is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. The editors focus on the social contexts in which drug usage, drug-related problems, and drug policies occur.
The American Drug Scene covers all major areas as well as alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs. Other topics include gender and addiction, sexual identity and drug use, the symbolic meaning of drug taking, drug treatment and recovery without treatment, the relationship between drugs and violence, cross-cultural research into drug use, and policy issues. The fifth edition includes thirteen new articles that address such topics as gender and "binge" drinking; cross-cultural research into marijuana use; crystal methamphetamine use among gay men; perceptions of risk and MDMA/Ecstasy; ADHD and Ritalin; gender and drug treatment; OxyContin and crime; and a discussion of safe injection facilities.

About this title

About the Author:

James A. Inciardi is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies at the University of Delaware.

Karen McElrath is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's University, Belfast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0195332466
• ISBN 13: 9780195332469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Inciardi James A., McElrath Karen