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Key Concepts in Drugs and Society (SAGE Key Concepts series)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2013
- Book Title
- Key Concepts in Drugs and Society (SAGE Key Concepts series)
- ISBN
- 9781847874849
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Psychology, Medical
- Publication Name
- Key concepts in Drugs and Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, The Limited
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- Sociology / General, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, General, Psychopathology / Addiction
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Series
- Sage Key concepts Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
SAGE Publications, The Limited
ISBN-10
1847874843
ISBN-13
9781847874849
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160109122
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Publication Name
Key concepts in Drugs and Society
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, General, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Psychology, Medical
Series
Sage Key concepts Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
This is a great resource that does what it promises and reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today. Nigel South Professor of Sociology, University of Essex This is a terrific book that for me does sit in a grey area between a textbook and a reference book. Dick Hobbs Professor, Essex University, UK Scholars, students or even a lay audiences, will find "Key Concepts" useful for grounding themselves in a broad understanding of the roles that drugs play in human society. Major topics in the field are examined more comprehensively and in more depth than is the case with many current approaches, like encyclopedias, that make the big picture difficult to discern. Key Concepts is a welcome addition to the tool box: it helps restore a learning style that has been largely displaced by an MTV-style of learning that blasts factoids in a pastiche of information with no apparent rhyme, reason or theoretical foundation to support it. Key Concepts covers a prodigious amount of intellectual terrain in a relatively small amount of space, making it a book that people might both buy and carry around. Key Concepts could very well become the "Key Words" (Raymond Williams) of the drug field. Ric Curtis Professor of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA This highly accessible book provides informative, balanced and contextualized insights into the relationships between people and drugs. Whatever your background and however knowledgeable you feel you are about contemporary drug issues, I guarantee that you will learn something unexpected and new from this valuable text. Joanne Neale Professor of Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, UK This broad and thorough text provides the reader with great insight into the reality of substance use in society. It eagerly challenges the readers' assumptions and beliefs about drug use and drug users with sound international evidence. All of us who work in areas relating to drug use, whether that be pertaining to education, legislation, criminal justice or clinical practice would do well to read this book and remember the historical and socio-political context in which we work. A pleasurable and page turning read! Anna Nelson Programme Manager, Matua Raki National Addiction Workforce Development Centre, New Zealand, This is a great resource that does what it promises and reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today. Nigel South Professor of Sociology, University of Essex
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
PART ONE: TYPES OF DRUGS AND PATTERNS OF USEWhat Is a Drug/Medicine?Prevalence and Trends in Illicit Drug UseWhy Do People Take Drugs?AddictionLegal Drugs: Alcohol and TobaccoPolydrug Use/Polysubstance UseCommon Illicit DrugsTypologies of Drug Use: Use-Misuse-Abuse and Problematic-Recreational UseBinge-DrinkingRaves and Circuit PartiesDance Drugs/Club DrugsCross-cultural and Traditional Drug Use Gender, Ethnicity and Social ClassNormalisationPART TWO: DRUG EFFECTS Drug Effects: Drug, Set and SettingMedical Marijuana and Other Therapeutic Uses of Illicit DrugsPrescribed and Over-the-Counter (OTC) DrugsNovel Psychoactive SubstancesThe Gateway Hypothesis/Stepping Stone TheoryDrug-related ViolenceDrugs and CrimeDrug Risks and Health HarmsInjecting Drug UseHIV/AIDS and Other Blood-borne VirusesPART THREE: DRUG POLICY, TREATMENT AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE DRUG PROBLEMDrug Treatment and Quasi-compulsory Treatment (QCT)Harm ReductionSubstitute PrescribingThe New Recovery ApproachPrevention: Primary, Secondary and TertiaryInternational Drug Control History/ProhibitionDrugs in SportDrug Scares and Moral PanicsDrug DealersDrug Markets: Difference and DiversityDrug TraffickingCrop Eradication, Crop Substitution and Legal CultivationWar on DrugsDrug Testing in Schools and WorkplacesDrug CourtsDecriminalisation, Legalisation and Legal RegulationLiberalisation
Synopsis
'This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today.' - Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex 'Provides informative, balanced and contextualized insights into the relationships between people and drugs. Whatever your background and however knowledgeable you feel you are about contemporary drug issues, I guarantee that you will learn something unexpected and new from this valuable text.' - Joanne Neale, Professor of Public Health, Oxford Brookes University Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do people's social positions influence their involvement in drug use? Insightful and illuminating, this book discusses drugs in social contexts. The authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as drug service practitioners such as drug workers, social workers and specialist nurses., A must for anyone working with questions of drug use; from students across the social sciences to practitioners such as nurses, health workers and social workers. This is not a medical text but rather a critical account of psychoactive drugs in our society that enables the reader to think about drugs beyond cultural myths and presuppositions., This is a great resource that reflects the huge expertise of the authors. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and indeed anyone wanting critical but comprehensive coverage of key issues and trends concerning drugs and society - locally and globally, historically and today. - Nigel South, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex Provides informative, balanced and contextualized insights into the relationships between people and drugs. Whatever your background and however knowledgeable you feel you are about contemporary drug issues, I guarantee that you will learn something unexpected and new from this valuable text. - Joanne Neale, Professor of Public Health, Oxford Brookes University Why do people take drugs? How do we understand moral panics? What is the relationship between drugs and violence? How do peoples social positions influence their involvement in drug use? Insightful and illuminating, this book discusses drugs in social contexts. The authors bring together their different theoretical and practical backgrounds, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction that opens up a wide scientific understanding moving beyond cultural myths and presuppositions. This is an invaluable reference source for students on criminology, sociology and social sciences programmes, as well as drug service practitioners such as drug workers, social workers and specialist nurses.
LC Classification Number
HV5801
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