Whether it be illegal drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine, or legal substances including cigarettes and alcohol, drug use is a deeply embedded characteristic of society. It has been estimated that during the last ten years $800,000 million has been spent in the United States by federal, state, and local governments, communities, businesses, schools, and private individuals to address drug use; and this amount does not include the indirect cost of drug use measured in human suffering, increased violence, and lost lives, nor does it include the damage done by cigarettes and alcohol. ^IDrug Use, Policy, and Management^R examines important issues about the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs from multiple perspectives including the social context of reality, historical and present patterns of drug use, causal factors associated with addiction, personality characteristics of the addict, consequences of addiction, research findings including those of a cross-cultural nature, case studies of addicts, and the management of services provision.
There are many factors that affect the patterns of drug use and the ways that addiction is addressed in terms of prevention and treatment. A full understanding of how these factors can and have changed is necessary for those who are working and studying in the field of social work, social welfare, and the helping professions. ^IDrug Use, Policy, and Management^R provides that understanding.

Drug Use, Policy, and Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Isralowitz, Richard

Telias, Darwin

Addiction & Recovery

Praeger

This concise, up-to-date volume compiles information and materials documenting illicit drugs and their use from multiple perspectives.
Illicit drug use is a deeply embedded characteristic of most societies, resulting in illness, death, crime and violence, terrorism, imprisonment, property confiscation―and massive allocations of government resources. Illicit Drugs provides comprehensive information for those seeking to understand the nature and scope of this far-reaching problem, as well as major issues of concern and debate surrounding it.
Organized thematically, the book begins with an overview of illicit drug use and abuse, including its history and risk factors. The scope of illicit drug use in the United States is covered, including conditions that encourage the practice, costs, related policies and programs, and prevention and treatment considerations. The book looks at populations at risk, including children and youth, women, older adults, and racial and ethnic minorities. International aspects of illicit drugs, such as production, trafficking, and consumption are also examined.
 • A chronology of significant events, decisions, policies, and agreements about illicit drug use in the United States from 1872 to the present
• Graphs and tables about illicit drug use patterns and problems
• A world map depicting the distribution of problem drugs throughout the world
• A glossary of key terms about drug use and abuse
• A bibliography of significant reference materials addressing illicit drug use

Illicit Drugs (Health and Medical Issues Today)

Watson, Juann M.

Greenwood

In 2009, President Barack Obama hosted a friendly "beer summit" on the White House lawn in an attempt to diffuse a racially charged incident between a Caucasian policeman and an African American professor. In the United States, beer and other alcoholic beverage companies are often the main advertisers during television sporting event coverage. A study has found that 44 percent of American college students participate in binge drinking, while the NHTSA reports that over 31 percent of traffic fatalities involve a driver with an illegal blood-alcohol content level. In our culture, consumption of alcohol is both widely accepted as a healthy social norm and condemned as a crime.
Alcohol provides information about how alcohol acts upon the body, the social problems related to alcohol use, medical disorders connected to alcohol use, alcohol use throughout world cultures and the American population, and public policy issues. This book also contains sections on adolescent and college student alcohol use.

Alcohol (Health and Medical Issues Today)

Reference

This new edition provides an up-to-date examination of the key issues of the drug problem, including cigarettes, heroin, alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana. It offers a current review of definitions of drug use and dependence, the latest developments regarding tobacco use and the historical agreement between government and industry, and research and analysis from a cross-cultural perspective. A detailed account of opium and heroin distribution and control in the region of Afghanistan provide valuable insight.
Whether it be illegal drugs such as marijuana, heroin, and cocaine or legal substances including cigarettes and alcohol, drug use is a deeply imbedded characteristic of society. An immense amount of money and human resources is spent in the United States to address drug use. For example, the cost of substance abuse to the U.S. economy each year is estimated to be over $414 billion. In terms of illegal drugs alone, the U.S. drug market has been estimated to be $150 billion a year. The annual federal anti-drug budget for law enforcement is about $12 billion per year; and about $3 billion goes to overseas drug wars alone with about half of that amount going to Colombia to eliminate opium and coca cultivation. It has been reported that substance abuse and addiction will add at least $41 billion to the costs of elementary and secondary education for 2001 due to class disruption and violence, special education and tutoring, teacher turnover, truancy, children left behind, student assistance programs, property damage, injury, and counseling. The cost to the nation for each of its hard-core addicts, per year, is about $30,000. The amount spent on the drug problem does not include the cost of drug use measured in human suffering, increased violence, and lost lives, nor does it include the damage done by cigarettes and alcohol.
The second, updated edition of this important work examines issues about the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs from multiple perspectives including the social context of reality, historical and present patterns of use, causal factors associated with addiction, research findings including those of a cross-cultural nature, case studies of addicts, and the management of services provision.

An enlightening discussion of the major issues related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance abuse. Information-packed chapters lend a new perspective to the field and suggest implications for practice in services for youth.

Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment (Child & Youth Services)

Singer, Mark

Beker, Jerome

Mental Health

Routledge

This title was first published in 2000:  Comprising over one-third of the land area of Israel, the Negev is home to more than 400,000 residents representing one of the most unusual ethnic mixes in the world. Immigrants from many regions and countries: North Africa, Ethiopia, the Middle East, India, Europe, North and South America, and the Republics of the former Soviet Union, now reside in the Negev along with indigenous Bedouin Arabs and Jews born in Israel. Transitions is a dedication to the Negev people, brought together by Richard Isralowitz of Ben Gurion University, Israel and Jonathan Friedlander of the University of California, Los Angeles. It documents a year in the lives of three groups of people through carefully selected and expertly written chapters contributed by Israeli scholars familiar with issues of immigration and immigrant absorption, regional development, health, education, as well as racial and ethnic conflict concerning Russian, Ethiopian and Bedouin people of Israel’s arid southern region.

Transitions: Russians, Ethiopians, and Bedouins in Israel’s Negev Desert

Friedlander, Jonathan

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Drug Use, Policy, and Management

Illicit Drugs (Health and Medical Issues Today)

Alcohol (Health and Medical Issues Today)

Drug Use, Policy, and Management

Adolescent Substance Abuse: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment (Child & Youth Services)

Transitions: Russians, Ethiopians, and Bedouins in Israel’s Negev Desert