Drug Use, Policy, and Management

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Drug Use, Policy, and Management Second Edition

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Richard Isralowitz

Book Code: T333

ISBN: 0-86569-333-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-333-3

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208 pages, figure, tables

Auburn House

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Health/Medicine » Substance Abuse
Sociology » Social Work

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Drug Use and Abuse: Definitions and the Social Context of Reality--Tobacco
Theoretical Considerations and Risk
Heroin: The King of Illegal Drugs
Alcohol and the Alcoholic
Cocaine and Crack
Marijuana: Is It Really a War of Values and Special Interests?
Management: Elements of Drug Treatment Services Organization and Development
Epilogue: The Final Straw--A Response to the War Against Drugs

LC Card Number: 2002020069

LCC Class: HV5825

Dewey Class: 363


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