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With the aim of showing how educators can use their skills to inform practical action on problematic drug issues, this text identifies the drug issues emerging in the classroom and highlights strategies for dealing with them.

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Debates over the use and abuse of drugs, the laws controlling drugs in this country, and the question of whether or not certain drugs should be legally available have inflamed Americans since the 19th-century, and continue to flourish as America attempts to rage its war on drugs.

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As the first director of National Drug Control Policy is appointed to the federal cabinet, this timely Handbook surveys the U.S. government's efforts to control illegal drugs.

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Focusing on a highly controversial and fiercely debated subject, this survey tracks the social and economic consequences of the production, trafficking, and consumption of cocaine, heroin, and cannabis.

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There are 1,100,000 intravenous drug users in the United States, with about 235,000 infected with HIV. Although treatment of substance abusers has an extensive history, no consensus has emerged as to which approach works best. This book offers information on the problem from an array of sources.

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An examination of the allure and degradation of the world of heroin with its effect on contemporary society by a New York ex-junkie journalist.

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This concise, up-to-date volume compiles information and materials documenting illicit drugs and their use from multiple perspectives.

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The extraordinary story of Australia's first legal injecting clinic provides important insights into the harrowing world of the addict and the outstanding efforts of a dedicated group of professionals.

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This collection of studies by experts on drug abuse treatment represents the state of the art in research examining what works best and why in a nationwide effort to improve and expand treatment to counteract the epidemic use of cocaine and the spread of AIDS.

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One of the first English-language historical analyses of African psychiatry, this book discusses mental and social disorder in the west African country of Sierra Leone from the late 18th century to the present.

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Based on a conference held at Ohio State University, this volume focuses on the unique mental health needs of ethnic minorities.

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With skill and compassion, Sarah Hafner, a recovering alcoholic, elicits from 18 women their struggles and triumphs as they fought alcoholism in a society where women cross-section of women, Hafner makes readily available the identification process found so helpful in various recovery programs.

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With skill and compassion, Sarah Hafner, a recovering alcoholic, elicits from 18 women their struggles and triumphs as they fought alcoholism in a society where women cross-section of women, Hafner makes readily available the identification process found so helpful in various recovery programs.

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This book's focus on programmatic responses to workplace drug abuse at the day-to-day implementation level will be welcomed by substance abuse professionals, designers and directors of employee assistance programs, human resources and benefits professionals, and managers concerned about substance abuse in the workplace.

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.In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines.

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The social acceptance of tobacco use obscures the fact that it is the single greatest preventable cause of death in the U.S., and approximately 80% of those who use tobacco products began using them before the age of 18.

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This book explains the role that peyote-a hallucinogenic cactus-plays in the religious and spiritual fulfillment of certain peoples in the United States and Mexico, and examines pressing issues concerning the regulation and conservation of peyote as well as issues of indigenous and religious rights.

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The prevailing neo-prohibitionist approach to reducing alcohol problems is generally ineffective, often counter-productive, and is doomed to failure. The thesis is that a socio-cultural approach would be effective, and therefore, that public policy should promote this approach.