Thoroughly revised and updated, Drugs and Society, Eleventh Edition, contains the most current information available concerning drug use and abuse. Written in an objective and user-friendly manner, this best-selling text continues to captivate students by taking a multidisciplinary approach to the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of ordinary people.
The Eleventh Edition incorporates the authors’ combined expertise in pharmacology, drug abuse, and sociology and extensive experience in research, teaching, drug policy-making, and drug policy implementation and includes hundreds of new citations that reflect the current state of drug abuse issues and the rapidly changing issues of substance abuse/addiction.
A Transition Guide is available to help make the switch to this new edition even easier.
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Features & Benefits
- NEW! Family Matters: Examples of how genetics and heredity contribute to drug abuse and its issues.
- NEW! Prescription for Abuse: Current stories that illustrate the problems of prescription abuse and its consequences.
- Holding the Line: Vignettes intended to help readers assess governmental efforts to deal with drug-related problems.
- Case in Point: Examples of relevant clinical issues that arise from the use of each major group of drugs discussed.
- Here and Now: Current events that illustrate the personal and social consequences of drug abuse.
- Highlighted definitions: Definitions of new terminology are conveniently located on the same page of their discussion in the text.
- Learning objectives: Goals for learning are listed at the beginning of each chapter to help students identify the principal concepts being taught.
- Summary statements: Concise summaries found at the end of each chapter correlate with the learning objectives.
- Chapter questions: Provocative questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to discuss, ponder, and critically analyze their own feelings and biases about the information presented in the book.
Chapter 1 Introduction to Drugs and Society
Chapter 2 Explaining Drug Use and Abuse
Chapter 3 Drug Use, Regulation, and the Law
Chapter 4 Homeostatic Systems and Drugs
Chapter 5 How and Why Drugs Work
Chapter 6 CNS Depressants: Sedative-Hypnotics
Chapter 7 Alcohol: Pharmacological Effects
Chapter 8 Alcohol: Behavioral Effects
Chapter 9 Narcotics (Opioids)
Chapter 10 Stimulants
Chapter 11 Tobacco
Chapter 12 Hallucinogens (Psychedelics)
Chapter 13 Marijuana
Chapter 14 Inhalants
Chapter 15 Over-the-Counter (OTC), Prescription, and Herbal Drugs
Chapter 16 Drug Use In Subcultures of Special Populations
Chapter 17 Drug Abuse Prevention
Chapter 18 Treating Drug Dependence
Glen R. Hanson, PhD, DDS-University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Dr. Glen R. Hanson, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Utah and the director of the Utah Addiction Center, has research the neurobiology of drug abuse for over 25 years and authored more than 200 scientific papers and book chapters of the subject. Dr. Hanson has lectured on drug abuse topics throughout the world. He served as the Director of the Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) after which he became NIDA's acting director from 2001-2003. He continues to serve as a NIDA senior advisor. As a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIDA is a federal agency recognized as the world's premier science organization dealing with drug abuse issues and funds 85% of the drug abuse-related research in the world. Dr. Hanson is also the Director of the Utah Addiction Center and works with scientists, public officials, policy makers, and the general public to more effectively deal with problems of drug abuse addiction.
Additional Titles by this Author
ISBN-13: 9781449629472
ISBN-13: 9781449638245
ISBN-13: 9781449685799
Peter J. Venturelli, PhD-Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
Dr. Peter J. Venturelli has been the coauthor of this text since the second edition of Drugs and Society in 1988. In addition to revising this text every three years, Dr. Venturelli’s experiences and qualifications in academia and professional life include: publishing research in drug and ethnic anthologies, other drug texts, and scholarly journals; authoring more than 36 conference papers at national professional sociological meetings; serving in elected and administrative positions in professional drug research associations; recipient of several research grants involving drug use and ethnicity; authoring the latest drug research in sociological encyclopedias; and full-time teaching of undergraduate and graduate students for the past 20 years.
Additional Titles by this Author
ISBN-13: 9781449634377
Annette E. Fleckenstein, PhD-University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Dr. Annette E. Fleckenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Utah. Dr. Fleckenstein is a scientist and lecturer widely recognized for her expertise in the neurochemistry of drug abuse. Her fresh, new perspectives greatly add to the value of the eighth edition of Drugs and Society.