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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

Intro -- One Living Life To Do More Drugs -- Two Triggers And Thypical Warning Signs -- Three The Harm In Getting High -- Four An issue THat Impacts Relationships -- Five Getting Clean And Staying Sober -- Six Teens' Ideas on Tackling Drug Abuse -- Notes -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index

Severe, chronic pain affects at least 116 million Americans every year. But there are fewer than 4,000 pain specialists in the United States, and many insurers won't cover physical therapy. But powerful pain medicines? They will certainly cover those. Prescriptions for powerful pain killers doubled between 1994 and 2008 — and abuse skyrocketed as well. The grim headlines are all too familiar. Celebrities such as Whitney Houston die of overdoses. Teens mix legitimate medicines — and pay with their lives. Heavy-handed government attempts to crack down on pain and anxiety medications have terrorized doctors and pharmacists and left thousands of desperate people in severe pain. Prescription Drug Abuse shows how big the problem is: how it became a problem, what is being done about it, and what readers can do. The book shows the risks, the benefits, and the safe way to use some of modern healthcare's most miraculous medicines.

This report examines prescription drug abuse in the United States. An estimated 6.8 million individuals currently abuse prescription drugs in the United States. Unlike policy on street drugs, federal policy on prescription drug abuse is complicated by the need to maintain access to prescription controlled substances (PCS) for legitimate medical use. The federal government has several roles in reducing prescription drug abuse.

Substance use is a pervasive health problem that contributes significantly to the recycling of offenders through the justice system. This study uses routine activities theory as a framework to determine whether the availability of illicit drugs in a probationer's immediate residential environment is associated with their use of illegal substances. Combining narcotics-related calls for police service data, interviews with offenders, life history event calendars, and biological drug test results, a clustered-logit regression model of 250 drug-involved probationers indicates that the availability of drugs within the probationer's immediate area is associated with a higher probability of testing positive for illicit substances. The results suggest a broader epidemiological framework to understand how environment affects drug use. Further research in this area will improve supervision practices of drug-involved individuals and interventions to reduce drug use.

Drug use and its consequences / B. Madras -- Genetics of substance use, abuse, cessation, and addiction : novel data implicate copy number variants / Uhl et al. -- Epidemiology of drug abuse : building blocks for etiologic research / Weinberg et al. -- Detection of populations at risk or addicted : screening, brief, intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in clinical settings / L. Gentilello -- Cocaine : mechanism and effects in the human brain / Trifilieff et al. -- Stress, anxiety, and cocaine abuse / Craige et al. -- The neuropathology of drug abuse / Bittner et al. -- The pathology of methamphetamine use in the human brain / S. Kish -- The effects of alcohol on the human nervous system / K. Brady -- The nicotine hypothesis / Brasic -- Smoking effects in the human nervous system / Schuman-Olivier -- Cognitive effects of nicotine / Sofuoglu et al. -- Effects of cannabis and cannabinoids in the human nervous system / H. Kalant -- Cannabis, cannabinoids, and the association with psychosis / Radhakrishnan et al. -- Effects of MDMA on the human nervous system / McCann et al. -- Sedative hypnotics / Ciraulo et al. -- Hallucinogens / Chan, Mendelson -- Inhalants : addiction and toxic effects in humans / Bowen et al. -- Emerging designer drugs / Nichols et al.

Since 1992, marijuana use among 8th graders has tripled, among 10th graders it has nearly doubled, and its use among high school seniors has increased by 50 percent. The use of other illicit drugs is also heavily on the rise. Yet, there exists very little research and literature on the etiology and prevention of drug abuse among those most at risk--disadvantaged, inner-city, minority youth. The Etiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse Among Minority Youth is an important first step in remedying this gap in the literature and for getting at the heart of the psychosocial factors that promote and su

Drug Abuse in the Modern World: A Perspective for the Eighties is a compilation of research papers presented at an international symposium, held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. The focus of the conference is the assessment of the effects of addictive drugs on an individual, both in mind and body, and the repercussions of its widespread use on society, specifically during the decade of the 80's. The book is composed of 49 chapters, which were divided into five parts. The first part presents the pharmacological properties of addictive drugs; its effect on brain

Illicit drugs, despite the "war" waged by the United States government, remain a tremendous drain on the American economy and continue to take their toll on the lives of countless Americans. A comprehensive text with an instructor's manual, Drug Abuse and Social Policy in America analyzes why current US policy on the use of licit and illicit mood-altering drugs has failed. This groundbreaking book addresses differences between decriminalization, legalization, and "zero tolerance"--areas and philosophies that are poorly understood--and suggests a multipronged approach to diminish inappropriate

This quarterly publication from the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services covers news of events and legislation pertaining to addiction of alcohol and drugs. Information about the agency is sometimes included.

This quarterly publication from the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services covers news of events and legislation pertaining to addiction of alcohol and drugs. Information about the agency is sometimes included.