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The legacies of drug kingpins are both egregious and legendary. Through vast networks of mercenaries, corrupt officials, terrorists, and smugglers, organized drug cartels traffic billions of dollars in heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and methamphetamine across international borders. El Chapo, Pablo Escobar, Frank Lucas, Paul Le Roux, and other kingpins have left indelible marks on the communities they used for drug trafficking, and their far-reaching impact can take years to undo by even the most vigilant law enforcement efforts. This collection details the breadth of their crimes, and includes media literacy questions and terms that challenge readers to assess how journalistic principles are applied to news coverage of kingpins and narcotrafficking.

Cover -- Introduction -- 1. Club Drugs Can Be Harmful -- 2. New Synthetic Club Drugs Pose Serious Challenges to Drug Enforcement -- 3. Legislation Is Needed to Ban Synthetic Club Drugs -- 4. Club Drugs Can Be Used to Facilitate Rape -- 5. Ecstasy Use by Pregnant Women Can Affect Infant Development -- 6. Recreational Use of the Club Drug Ketamine Can Lead to Bladder Disease -- 7. Ketamine: A Fast-Acting Antidepressant? -- 8. The Use of Methamphetamine Can Devastate Lives -- 9. The Drug "Spice" May Be Harmful and Should Be Regulated -- 10. Use of the Drug "Spice" Is Causing Concern in the Military -- 11. Taking Drugs Known as Bath Salts Can Cause Serious Health Consequences -- 12. Community Coalitions Can Help Reduce Access to Synthetic Drugs -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Beyond Drugs is a 12-chapter book that first presents the critical issues and definitions involved in the study of drug abuse. Subsequent chapters describe the effects of drugs, the drug users, and the contemporary drug culture. Other chapters talk about education, prevention, treatment, and legal control efforts of drug abuse. This book will be useful to those who are generally concerned about drug abuse.

The relationship between drugs and prostitution has been studied as part of a general investigation undertaken by the Inquiry into Prostitution established by the Victorian Government in September 1984. Prostitutes surveyed in Melbourne had similar alcohol consumption patterns to their age counterparts in the community but they were more likely to smoke tobacco and they smoked more each day. Overall, 87% of female and 65% of male prostitutes had used drugs other than alcohol and tobacco in the last year. They used over-the-counter medicines twice as frequently as the general population but most of this overrepresentation could be attributed to vitamin pills and tonics. Use of prescription medication was about the same as in the community. Although most prostitutes surveyed had tried marijuana only half had used it in the last year. Similarly, one-third of the interviewees had tried heroin but less than 40% of these users, or 15% of the sample, had used heroin in the last year. This use was greater among street workers than among other prostitutes. Marijuana use usually preceded prostitution but no definite time sequence for initiation into other drug use and prostitution could be established and there was no direct evidence for a causal link between narcotic abuse and prostitution. It is possible that the high frequency of illicit drug use among street prostitutes results from either a tendency for some young people to become associated with others engaging in generally deviant behaviour or through funnelling into a counter societal lifestyle encouraged by desire for money.

Drugs in Prison is an essential handbook for all those who work with prisoners as well as students of penal drugs policy. Comprehensive and easy to use, it: provides up-to-date information on drugs, drug misuse and drugs legislation; outlines government and prison strategies for tackling drug misuse; describes the various methods being used to combat drugs in prison; reviews the effectiveness of these approaches and the performance of different establishments; discusses future strategy and practice. Also featured are extensive index, a glossary, and useful appendices, case studies and check

""Drug dreams"", or the dreams in which drug-dependent patients use or attempt to use the drugs that they are addicted to, are a well-documented clinical phenomenon in various forms of drug addiction. Authors have highlighted their clinical, prognostic and therapeutic usefulness, since they provide information about the patients' ""drug craving"", their ability to cope with it, and their motivation to stay clean and sober. However, the study of drug dreams also reveals several implications and inspiration for general dream research and theory, especially with respect to the recent neuropsychol

A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming's experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions. He describes the intricacies of drug use and acquisition, their impact on the intellect and emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly managed existence unravels into arrests, hospitalisations and family breakdown. His account is accompanied by searching reflections on his childhood, during which he developed acute obsessive compulsive disorder and became fixated on martial arts, music-making and bodybuilding. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, On Drugs also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, on popular culture, religion and mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Is the Prohibition of Drugs Failing? -- Yes: The Prohibition of Drugs Is Failing -- Prohibition of Marijuana Unnecessarily Criminalizes Young Minorities -- No: The Prohibition of Drugs Is Not Failing -- Drug Legalisation: An Evaluation of the Impacts on Global Society -- Chapter 2: Is Drug Use Dangerous for Society? -- Yes: Drug Use Is Dangerous for Society -- Drug Use Negatively Impacts Health, Productivity, and Crime -- No: Drug Use Is Not Dangerous for Society -- Drug Prohibition Is More Dangerous than Decriminalization -- Chapter 3: Should Marijuana Be Legalized? -- Yes: Marijuana Should Be Legalized -- Marijuana Should Be Legalized and Not Just Decriminalized -- Medical Marijuana Should Be Legalized -- No: Marijuana Should Not Be Legalized -- Medical Marijuana in Plant Form Should Not Be Legalized -- Chapter 4: How Should US Drug Policy Be Reformed? -- Have We Lost the War on Drugs? -- Legalizing Drugs -- Legal, Regulated Heroin Could Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman -- Heroin and Rational Choice -- There Is No Moral Justification for the Prohibition of Drugs -- Drug Legalization Will Have Positive and Negative Consequences -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Introduction -- 1. An Overview of Drug Abuse and Dependence -- 2. Drug Abusers Are Often Victims of a Mental Illness -- 3. People Are Responsible for Their Decision to Abuse Drugs -- 4. Social and Environmental Conditions Cause Drug Addiction -- 5. Drug War Madness -- 6. All Drugs Should Be Legalized -- 7. Effective Education Programs Are Successful in Preventing Drug Abuse -- 8. Spiritual Meaning Is Needed to Combat Drug Abuse -- 9. Straightening the Irish Out About Addiction -- 10. Prescription Drug Abuse Is a Growing Problem -- 11. Attempts to Prevent People from Abusing Prescription Drugs Are Harming Legitimate Users -- 12. A Teenage Girl Describes Her Experience with Heroin Addiction -- Appendix -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits -- 1 -- 3 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7