Product Description: Absinthe produced a sense of euphoria, similar to the effect of cocaine and opium, but was addictive and caused a rapid loss of mental and physical faculties. Despite that, Picasso, Manet, Rimbaud and Wilde were among those devoted to the "green fairy, " and produced writings and art influenced by absinthe...read more

Product Description: Given the resurgence of substance abuse in the 1990's among adolescents, this research is of critical importance, presenting a timely analysis of substance abuse among Miami adolescents. The book is multidisciplinary, drawing from the research on substance abuse in such fields as psychology, sociology, criminal justice, political science, and economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume examines the theory, research, and social policy implications of six major sociological perspectives - rather than types of deviant behavior.

Analyzes the causes and costs of traffic accidents, examines how alcohol and drugs affect driving performance, and discusses possible safety policies

Product Description: Dorsey Press, Homewood, Ill., 1983. Paper.

Product Description: The vast majority of Americans have, at one point or another gotten drunk, smoked, dabbled with drugs, gambled, sworn or engaged in adultery. During the 1800s, respectable people struggled to control these behaviors, labeling them bad and the people who indulged in them unrespectable...read more

"The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered ... the development of San Francisco’s underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent." The Barbary Coast is Herbert Asbury’s classic chronicle of the birth of San Francisco—a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. (In the 1850s, San Francisco was home to only one woman for every thirty men. It was not until 1910 that the sexes achieved anything close to parity in their populations.) This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.

Product Description: Human behaviour, which holds a fascination for most people, can best be viewed as lying on a spectrum - from normality at one end to extreme deviation at the other, with obvious grey areas inbetween. Even the most deviant-seeming behaviours appear to have their counterparts in normality, and such behaviours can often be explained (at least in part) when viewed in their socio-cultural and psychological context...read more

Product Description: Many studies of Black men have been and will be produced, but most have approached the subject from angles other than a position of scholarship that explores how Black men have come to be socially produced as deviants, and asks how have persons in academe participated in the production of these perceived deviants, and how has the Black community responded to this social construct of a role...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chronicles the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders through its modern cult followings, noting important figures in history whose lives were affected by absinthe as well as recent pharmacological studies that uncovered how it affects the nervous system. Original.

Product Description: Neither a "just say no" treatise nor a "how-to" manual, this easy-to-read handbook is based on the conviction that well-informed people make better decisions. It provides information on how drugs enter the body, how they manipulate the brain, their short- and long-term effects, the "high" they produce and the circumstances in which they can be deadly...read more

Presents opposing viewpoints about the causes and treatment of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug addiction, and includes critical thinking skill activities and a list of organizations to contact (view table of contents)

Product Description: This contemporary collection of national and international research on drug subcultures situates drug using behavior within an individual's social context so that readers may break through longstanding stereotypes concerning people who consume legal and illegal drugs...read more

Product Description: Every year, more than 400,000 Americans die prematurely because of tobacco use. Most began smoking during their teen years. Adolescent tobacco use remains our nation's most preventable threat to life and health. This public health crisis has generated widespread debate over how best to prevent young people from initiating smoking or using other tobacco products...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Susan Winemaker has lived a life that many women secretly desire, but few admit to...Concertina is the tale of a young chef who abandons her life in the restaurant kitchens of London to satisfy an appetite of a different kind and become one of the most well-known and respected dominatrixes on the city's S&M scene...read more

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A social history of the gin epidemic in eighteenth-century London offers a colorful account of the English Parliament's failed thirty-year battle against gin and the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of the gin epidemic. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.