The American drug scene : an anthology / [edited by] James Inciardi, Karen McElrath.

Contributor Inciardi, James A.

Edition Statement:6th ed.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Description540 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: -- Historical And Theoretical Perspectives On Drug Use And Addiction: -- *1: Evolution of drug taking and drug seeking in America / James A Inciardi and Karen McElrath -- 2: Sociological theory of drug addiction / Alfred R Lindesmith -- *3: Why people take drugs / Andrew Weil -- *4: Becoming a Marihuana user / Howard S Becker -- 5. Dope fiends and degenerates: the gendering of addiction in the early twentieth century / Mara L Keire -- 6: Sociopharmacology of drug use: initial thoughts / Samuel R Friedman -- 7: Social impact of drugs and the war on drugs: the social construction of drug scares / Craig Reinarman -- Part 2: -- Alcohol, Tobacco, And Steroids: -- 8: Brief history of alcohol / Harvey A Siegal and James A Inciardi -- 9: Gateway to nowhere: how alcohol came to be scapegoated for drug abuse / Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky -- *10: Gendered dimensions of smoking among college students/ Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Elizabeth E Lloyd-Richardson, Brian Flaherty, Asli Carkoglu, and Nicole Taylor -- *11: Getting Huge, Getting Ripped: A Qualitative Exploration of Recreational Steroid Use / Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli -- Part 3: -- MARIJUANA: -- 12: Marijuana: Assassin of Youth/ Harry J Anslinger and Courtney Ryley Cooper -- 13: Blunts and blowtjes: cannabis use practices in two cultural settings and their implications for secondary prevention / Stephen J Sifaneck, Charles D Kaplan, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D Johnson -- 14: Power of 420 / Karen B Halnon -- *15. Medical Marihuana in a time of prohibition / Lester Grinspoon -- Part 4: -- Narcotics And Prescription Opioids: -- 16: Dope Fiend mythology / Alfred R Lindesmith -- 17: Taking care of business: the heroin addicts life on the street / Edward Preble and John J Casey -- 18: Gen-X Junkie: ethnographic research with young white heroin users in Washington, DC / Todd G. Pierce -- *19: Prescription opioid abuse and diversion in an urban community: the results of an ultrarapid assessment / James A Inciardi, Hilary L Surratt, Theodore J Cicero, and Ronald A Beard -- Part 5: -- Cocaine And Crack: -- 20: America's first cocaine epidemic / David F Musto -- *21: Social organization," from wheeling and dealing: an ethnography of an upper-level drug dealing and smuggling community / Patricia A Adler -- 22: African Americans, crack, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines / James A Inciardi, Hilary L Surratt, and Steven P Kurtz -- 23: Refining rock: practical and social features of self-control among a group of college-student crack users / Curtis Jackson-Jacobs -- Part 6: -- Methamphetamine And Other Stimulants: -- *24: Prevalence of methamphetamine and amphetamine abuse in North America: a review of the indicators, 1992-2007 / Jane Carlisle Maxwell and Beth A Rutkowski -- *25: Crystal meth, gay men, and circuit parties / Steven P Kurtz and James A Inciardi -- *26: Research note: crime, chemicals, and culture: on the complexity of Khat / Edward G Armstrong -- 27: Very childish moral panic: Ritalin / Toby Miller and Marie Claire Leger -- Part 7: -- Drugs, Youth Cultures, And Club Cultures -- *28: Solidarity and drug use in the electronic dance music scene / Philip R Kavanaugh and Tammy L Anderson -- 29: Ketamine injection among high-risk youth: preliminary findings from New York City / Stephen E Lankenau and Michael C Clatts -- *30: Salvia Divinorum use among a college student sample / David N Khey, Bryan Lee Miller, and O Hayden Griffin -- Part 8: -- Drugs And Crime: -- 31: Drugs/violence nexus: a tripartite conceptual framework / Paul J Goldstein -- 32: Sex work and drug use in a subculture of violence / Hilary L Surratt, James A Inciardi, Steven P Kurtz, and Marion C Kiley -- 33: Women in the street-level drug economy: continuity or change? / Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly -- Part 9: -- Drug Treatment: -- 34: Gender-specific issues in the treatment of drug-involved women / Hilary L Surratt -- 35: Advances in therapeutic communities / National Institute on Drug Abuse -- 36: Methadone maintenance: a theoretical perspective / Vincent P Dole and Marie Nyswander -- 37: Elephant that no one sees: natural recovery among middle-class addicts / Robert Granfield and William Cloud -- Part 10: -- Policy Considerations: -- 38: Safety first: a reality-based approach to teens, drugs, and drug education / Marsha Rosenbaum -- 39: Healthy nightclubs and recreational substance use: from a harm minimization to a healthy settings approach / Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey -- 40: Commonsense drug policy / Ethan A Nadelmann -- 41: Why can't we make prohibition work better? some consequences of ignoring the unattractive / Peter Reuter -- *42: Clinical and societal implications of drug legalization / Herbert D Kleber and James A Inciardi -- Websites -- Index.

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