Amazon.com description: Product Description: This text provides the reader with the most current views on drug abuse in an objective and easy to understand manner. It also helps students to apply basic understanding gained from this text to their personal and professional lives in order to make informed and responsible choices with regard to drugs and drug abuse problems. This new edition has been carefully reviewed and supported by those who teach drug abuse courses, including sociologists, social workers, health educators, and many experts in the drug abuse education field.