In this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates.
This practical guide places particular emphasis on the special needs of women addicts, and the special issues and populations addressed include pregnancy and substance abuse, homeless women and substance abuse in the workplace.'
A recent report from the United States Surgeon General shows that some school-based tobacco use prevention programmes have proved successful in discouraging first use of tobacco among children. Dissemination of these programmes, however, has been minimal. Taking a health researcher's perspective, the authors of this volume discuss the history, status and needs of school-based tobacco use prevention/cessation research. Issues addressed include how to implement such programmes and the major theoretical and methodological issues involved. Details of the Project Toward No Tobacco Use (TNT) are also covered.
What is known about the influence of ethnicity upon drug use? How can this knowledge be used to develop prevention programmes for multi-ethnic youth? Contributors to this invaluable book address these and other pressing questions. They consider specific problems and challenges confronting researchers involved in studying substance abuse in minority communities; explore explanations for racial and ethnic differences in drug use; and examine possible risk and protective factors which influence use. Current drug abuse prevention models in settings including schools, communities and homeless shelters are also presented.
Smoking presents important controversial research that is based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing: * attitudes * beliefs * feelings * perceptions of risk associated with smoking The expert board of contributors point out that young smokers give little or not thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The ......
Smoking presents important controversial research that is based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing: * attitudes * beliefs * feelings * perceptions of risk associated with smoking The expert board of contributors point out that young smokers give little or not thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The ......
Weaving case studies from the wars against AIDS and drugs with an empirical analysis of congressional action on these issues, this title shows how members of Congress balance problem solving with re-election concerns, paying particular attention to their need to craft compelling rationales for their actions.
This workbook is an initial approach for helping teenagers become aware, both cognitively and emotionally, of the negative consequences of their drug and/or alcohol use. It is hoped that by seeing for themselves how not using can make their life better, teenagers will become motivated toward beginning treatment. This is a package of 5.
