Product Description: This handbook provides a comprehensive examination of the past and present roles of drugs in society with a focus on theory, research, policy, and practice. Includes 28 original chapters with multi-disciplinary and international perspectives by top social and behavioral scientists Reviews current knowledge in the field, including key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological debates Identifies ongoing controversies in the field, emergent topics, and areas in need of further inquiry Discusses individual drugs as well as topics like physiological theories of drug use and abuse, public health implications of drugs, patterns of drugs and crime, international drug trade and trafficking, and designer drugs...read more

Provides students with a deeper understanding of what impacts drug use.   The eighth edition of Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives. In today's world, drugs and their use present a social paradox, combining the potential for good and for bad. As a society and as individuals, we can be the beneficiaries of drugs or their victims. This text features a comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs, and is notable for the attention it gives to two aspects of drug-taking behavior that have been underreported in other texts: steroid abuse and inhalant abuse.   This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through  CourseSmart, Amazon, and more.   Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Understand the impact of drug use on behavior and society. Examine the pros and cons to drug use.    

Product Description: Prescription drugs are a growing problem in our society. Oxycodone is a painkiller that is commonly abused, even by people who use it for the right reasons. This book details the benefits, side effects, drawbacks, and staggering costs of this highly addictive narcotic...read more

Product Description: In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled. In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the institutions of society have washed their hands of any responsibility for assimilating the desire for intoxication into social existence, and by doing so have sponsored a free-for-all that has often had disastrous consequences for individuals and communities alike...read more

Product Description: Severe, chronic pain affects at least 116 million Americans every year. But there are fewer than 4,000 pain specialists in the United States, and many insurers won’t cover physical therapy. But powerful pain medicines? They will certainly cover those...read more

Product Description: Focusing on topics of special concern to students, this series makes complex issues less intimidating and more accessible; each book presents 10 to 14 readings from a variety of perspectives that allow readers to better understand the topic...read more

Product Description: Describes over-the-counter drugs, including who is misusing or abusing them, and how addiction is treated.Title: Abusing Over-The-Counter DrugsAuthor: Etingoff, KimPublisher: Mason CrestPublication Date: 2012/09/01Number of Pages: 128Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 201103259...read more

Product Description: Looks at hallucinogenic drugs, including their history, how they affect the body, their dangers, and their legal status.Title: HallucinogensAuthor: Nelson, SheilaPublisher: Mason CrestPublication Date: 2012/09/01Number of Pages: 128Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 201103256...read more

Written for the drug and substance abuse counseling course, this text prepares future health professionals to work with patients, clients, and families of abusers. It provides perspective on the issues associated with addiction and covers the fundamentals of the dynamics of chemical dependency. Accompanied by free access to PowerWeb, this edition improves topic flow and brings the research base into the 21st century.

Product Description: In this unique and engaging book, Sue Pryce tackles the major issues surrounding drug policy. Why do governments persist with prohibition policies, despite their proven inefficacy? Why are some drugs criminalized, and some not? And why does society care about drug use at all? Pryce guides us through drug policy around the world...read more

Product Description: Prescription and over-the-counter medications are the most commonly abused drugs by high school students after marijuana. Street Pharma looks at this growing problem and gives young readers the information they need to say no before they start or find help to quit when theyve become addicted...read more

Product Description: Inhalants and solvents, along with prescription and over-the-counter medications, have become an easy-access entry point to drug use for young people. This important book carefully examines the facts and provides information on addiction and treatment, as well as useful alternatives to drug use...read more