A World of Opportunities: Lifestyle and Economic Behavior of Heroin Addicts in Amsterdam Book

	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	Goals and Research Questions	1
	The Drug-Political Context	5
Ch. 2	The Connection Between Drug Use and Crime: Facts and Explanations	15
	Empirical Connection Between Drug Use and Crime	17
	Explanations	27
Ch. 3	Careers in Deviancy and Drugs	41
	Starting to Use Hard Drugs	43
	Course of a Drug Career	58
	Continuity of criminal patterns in life histories	74
Ch. 4	The Amsterdam Drug Scene	81
	The Drug Scene in Amsterdam's Inner City	82
	Actors in the Scene and Their Mutual Relationships	87
Ch. 5	Income Acquisition	99
	Ways of Acquiring Income	99
	A Quantitative Picture of Income	115
	The Figures for Amsterdam Compared with Other Studies	117
	An Economic Typology	123
Ch. 6	Spending and Drug Use	135
	Spending	135
	Drug Use	138
	The Functions of the Different Drugs in the Scene	145
	Patterns of Use	150
Ch. 7	Methadone Maintenance, Illegal Drug Use, and Acquisitive Crime	159
	Methadone Maintenance Programs and Crime: The Theory	161
	Methadone Maintenance Programs in Amsterdam	169
	Methadone Use and the Use of Illegal Drugs	171
	The Distribution of Methadone and Crime	178
	The Distribution of Methadone and the Economic Typology	182
Ch. 8	Conclusions, Theoretical Implications, and Possible Policy Consequences	189
	The Most Important Results	190
	The Relationship Between Drug Use and Crime	195
	Possible Policy Consequences	199
	Epilogue: Some Considerations for the International Prohibitionistic Policy Perspective	213
	Appendix: Methodology	217
	References	225
	Index	237