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The American Drug Scene An Anthology

ISBN: 9780199739295 | 0199739293
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/12/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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... MORE

*=New to this Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
PART I. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DRUG USE AND ADDICTION
* 1. The Evolution of Drug Taking and Drug Seeking in America, James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath
2. A 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 Fien... MORE

James Inciardi (1939-2009) was Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

Karen McElrath is Reader in the School of Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Work at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland.

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