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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

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 treat... MORE

New to the Fifth Edition
Theoretical Perspectives on Drug Use and Addiction
A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction
Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction
The Use of Marijuana for Pleasure: A Replication of Howard S. Becker's Study of Marijuana Use
Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century
Sociopharmacology of Drug ... MOREUse: Initial Thoughts
The Social Impact of Drugs and the War on Drugs: The Social Construction of Drug Scares
Alcohol and Tobacco
A Brief History of Alcohol
Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse
Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women
Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It?
Marijuana
Marijuana: Assassin of Youth
Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition
Blunts and Blowtjes: Cannabis Use Practices in Two Cultural Settings and Their Implications for Secondary Prevention
The Power of 420
Heroin and Other Opiates
'Dope Fiend' Mythology
OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug?
The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky
Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street
Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research with Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C.
Cocaine and Crack
America's First Cocaine Epidemic
African Americans, Crack, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
An Ethno-epidemiological Model for the Study of Trends in Illicit Drug Use: Reflections on the 'Emergence'of Crack Injection
Refining Rock: Practical and Social Features of Self-Control among a Group of College-Student Crack Users
Methamphetamine and Other Stimulants
History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States
A Very Childish Moral Panic: Ritalin
'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic
Post-Circuit Blues: Motivations and Consequences of Crystal Meth Use Among Gay Men in Miami
Drugs and the Club Culture
Rise of Hallucinogen Use
Conceptions of Risk in the Lives of Club Drug-Using Youth
Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City
Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach
Drugs and Crime
The Drugs-Crime Connection
Sex
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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.

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