This is a highly regarded core text by a major name in the field. The central philosophy of this text is a respect for the facts, research, and data. Goode draws the line between theory and reality, thus avoiding ideological biases and unsubstantiable polemics. He lets the evidence speak for itself. As in his previous editions, Goode provides balanced coverage of the use and abuse of drugs (and alcohol). There are many books on drug abuse and addiction; most are oriented more toward criminal justice and pharmacology. Goode remains unique in his emphasis on the sociological perspective, as he focuses on drug use and abuse in their social and cultural context. The fifth edition has been substantially revised; it's much more than a simple update. While retaining his coverage of the basic pharmacology, theory, history, and epidemiology, Goode has added three new chapters; " Drugs and Crime and Violence," "Drug Treatment, Drug Testing, and Drug Education," and "Drugs and the Law." As before, he includes first-hand accounts of drug users that students can relate to. While its primary market is in sociology (e.g., deviance and social problems), it is also used in courses in criminal justice, psychology, and public policy.

Drugs in American Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Erich Goode

Sociology

Mcgraw-Hill College

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The drug phenomenon: social aspects of drug taking (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)

Social Sciences

Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, Indianapolis

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McGraw-Hill,USA

"The first edition of this Drugs in American Society was published a half-century ago, when systematic, reliable, nationally-representative data on drug use were not available; the information that social scientists used back then to draw conclusions about the consumption of mood-altering drugs was patchy, incomplete, and in all likelihood, skewed. Today, if anything, there is virtually a churning sea of informative data about the subject of this book, and the task is sifting through it all. (In fact, fairly frequently, different sources promulgate slightly different statistics, a glitch no acute observer of the drug scene should be distressed by.) Much of this information is produced by ongoing data-gathering enterprises, mainly government sponsored, that conduct surveys, often regularly, so that it is possible for the interested student, scholar, researcher, and nonprofessional to produce an up-to-date picture of the drug situation in the United States. It seems almost redundant to mention this and, when relevant, I shall make the point more forcefully: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on virtually all aspects of our lives, beginning, in the United States, early in 2020"--

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Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance focuses on behavior, beliefs, and traits that are so serious as to generate, in the words of Edwin Lemert, secondary deviation. Editors Erich Goode and D. Angus Vail tunnel to the core of the subject by emphasizing a set of central lessons, offering edgy, pedagogically dramatic illustrations of principles that are contained in no other collection of readings. The book is complete with vocabularies of motive, deviance neutralization, the acquisition of a deviant identity, and the formation of a deviance subculture.

Extreme Deviance

Christopher D. Bader

Kathleen M. Blee

Debra Gimlin

Stephanie Kelley-Romano

Russell K. Nieli

Tom Metzger

Mary de Young

Mike Roselle

Sage Publications, Inc.

Drugs, Society, and Behavior 93/94 (Annual Editions)

McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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