| Contents |
*= New to this Edition -- 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. |
| Abstract |
Synopsis: Now in its sixth edition, The American Drug Scene, edited by James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath, is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. Offering a unique focus on the social contexts in which drug usage, drug-related problems, and drug policies occur, it presents theoretical and descriptive material drawn from both ethnographic and quantitative sources. The American Drug Scene, Sixth Edition, features forty-two selections that cover all abused drugs - amphetamines and methamphetamines, opiates, marijuana, cocaine and crack, hallucinogens, and "club drugs" - as well as such legal substances as alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs. Other topics include gender and addiction; cross-cultural research into drug use; the relationship between drugs, violence, and street crime; the symbolic meaning of drug taking; injection drug use; the social construction of drug problems and moral panics; prevention and treatment; and the drug legalization debate. The sixth edition includes thirteen new articles that address recent and emerging patterns of drug use and policy debates, including crystal methamphetamine abuse among gay men; MDMA/ecstasy and the club scene; anabolic steroid use by bodybuilders; medical marijuana; prescription opiate abuse; the relatively recent use of khat in the U.S.; and salvia divinorum use among college students. |
