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The American Drug Scene Book

The American Drug Scene, 
Inciardi and McElrath's popular anthology is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. The editors focus on the social contexts in which drug usage,, The American Drug Scene
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  • The American Drug Scene
  • Written by author James A. Inciardi, Karen McElrath
  • Published by Oxford University Press, 4/1/2004
  • Inciardi and McElrath's popular anthology is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. The editors focus on the social contexts in which drug usage,
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Part I. Theoretical Perspectives on Drug Use and Addiction
1. A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction, Alfred R. Lindesmith
2. Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction, Jennifer L. Syvertsen
3. The Use of Marijuana for Pleasure: A Replication of Howard S. Becker's Study of Marijuana Use, Michael L. Hirsch, Randall W. Conforti, and Carolyn J. Graney
4. Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century, Mara L. Keire
5. Sociopharmacology of Drug Use: Initial Thoughts, Samuel R. Friedman
*6. The Social Impact of Drugs and the War on Drugs: The Social Construction of Drug Scares, Craig Reinarman
Part II. Alcohol and Tobacco
7. A Brief History of Alcohol, Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi
8. Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse, Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky
*9. Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women, Amy M. Young, Michele Morales, Sean Esteban McCabe, Carol J. Boyd, and Hannah D'Arcy
10. Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It?, Mark Nichter
Part III. Marijuana
11. Marijuana: Assassin of Youth, Harry J. Anslinger and Courtney Ryley Cooper
12. Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition, Lester Grinspoon
*13. Blunts and Blowtjes: Cannabis Use Practices in Two Cultural Settings and Their Implications for Secondary Prevention, Stephen J. Sifaneck, Charles D. Kaplan, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson
14. The Power of 420, Karen B. Halnon
Part IV. Heroin and Other Opiates
15. 'Dope Fiend' Mythology, Alfred R. Lindesmith
16. OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug?, James A. Inciardi and Jennifer L. Syvertsen
*17. The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky, Kenneth D. Tunnell
18. Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street, Edward Preble and John J. Casey
19. Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research with Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C., Todd G. Pierce
Part V. Cocaine and Crack
20. America's First Cocaine Epidemic, David F. Musto
21. African Americans, Crack, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt, and Steven P. Kurtz
*22. An Ethno-epidemiological Model for the Study of Trends in Illicit Drug Use: Reflections on the 'Emergence'of Crack Injection, Michael C. Clatts, Dorinda L. Welle, Lloyd A. Goldsamt, and Stephen E. Lankenau
*23. Refining Rock: Practical and Social Features of Self-Control among a Group of College-Student Crack Users, Curtis Jackson-Jacobs
Part VI. Methamphetamine and Other Stimulants
24. History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States, Marissa A. Miller
*25. A Very Childish Moral Panic: Ritalin, Toby Miller and Marie Claire Leger
26. 'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic, Philip Jenkins
*27. Post-Circuit Blues: Motivations and Consequences of Crystal Meth Use Among Gay Men in Miami, Steven P. Kurtz
Part VII. Drugs and the Club Culture
28. Rise of Hallucinogen Use, Dana Hunt
*29. Conceptions of Risk in the Lives of Club Drug-Using Youth, Brian C. Kelly
30. Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City, Stephen E. Lankenau and Michael C. Clatts
31. Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey
Part VIII. Drugs and Crime
32. The Drugs-Crime Connection, David N. Nurco, Timothy W. Kinlock, and Thomas E.Hanlon
*33. Sex Work and Drug Use in a Subculture of Violence, Hilary L. Surratt, James A. Inciardi, Steven P. Kurtz, and Marion C. Kiley
34. The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework, Paul J. Goldstein
35. Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change?, Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly
Part IX. Drug Treatment
*36. Gender-Specific Issues in the Treatment of Drug-Involved Women, Hilary L. Surratt
37. Advances in Therapeutic Communities, National Institute on Drug Abuse
38. Methadone Maintenance: A Theoretical Perspective, Vincent P. Dole and Marie Nyswander
39. The Elephant That No One Sees: Natural Recovery Among Middle-Class Addicts, Robert Granfield and William Cloud
40. Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education, Marsha Rosenbaum
41. Commonsense Drug Policy, Ethan A. Nadelmann
42. Why Can't We Make Prohibition Work Better? Some Consequences of Ignoring the Unattractive, Peter Reuter
*43. Clinical and Societal Implications of Drug Legalization, Herbert D. Kleber and James A. Inciardi
*44. Safer Injection Facilities in North America: Their Place in Public Policy and Health Initiatives, Robert S. Broadhead, Thomas H. Kerr, Jean-Paul C. Grund, and Frederick L. Altice


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