The American Drug Scene An Anthology

by Inciardi, James A.; McElrath, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780195332469
• ISBN10: 0195332466
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Inciardi and McElrath's popular anthology is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. The editors focus on the social contexts in which drug usage, drug-related problems, and drug policies occur. The American Drug Scene covers all major areas as well as alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs. Other topics include gender and addiction, sexual identity and drug use, the symbolic meaning of drug taking, drug treatment and recovery without treatment, the relationship between drugs and violence, cross-cultural research into drug use, and policy issues. The fifth edition includes thirteen new articles that address such topics as gender and "binge" drinking; cross-cultural research into marijuana use; crystal methamphetamine use among gay men; perceptions of risk and MDMA/Ecstasy; ADHD and Ritalin; gender and drug treatment; OxyContin and crime; and a discussion of safe injection facilities.

Author Biography

James A. Inciardi is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies at the University of Delaware.
Karen McElrath is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

New to the Fifth Edition

Theoretical Perspectives on Drug Use and Addiction

A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction

Some Considerations on the Disease Concept of Addiction

The Use of Marijuana for Pleasure: A Replication of Howard S. Becker's Study of Marijuana Use

Dope Fiends and Degenerates: The Gendering of Addiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Sociopharmacology of Drug Use: Initial Thoughts

The Social Impact of Drugs and the War on Drugs: The Social Construction of Drug Scares

Alcohol and Tobacco

A Brief History of Alcohol

Gateway to Nowhere: How Alcohol Came to Be Scapegoated for Drug Abuse

Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women

Smoking: What Does Culture Have to Do With It?

Marijuana

Marijuana: Assassin of Youth

Medical Marihuana in a Time of Prohibition

Blunts and Blowtjes: Cannabis Use Practices in Two Cultural Settings and Their Implications for Secondary Prevention

The Power of 420

Heroin and Other Opiates

'Dope Fiend' Mythology

OxyContin: Miracle Medicine or Problem Drug?

The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky

Taking Care of Business-The Heroin Addict's Life on the Street

Gen-X Junkie: Ethnographic Research with Young White Heroin Users in Washington, D.C.

Cocaine and Crack

America's First Cocaine Epidemic

African Americans, Crack, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

An Ethno-epidemiological Model for the Study of Trends in Illicit Drug Use: Reflections on the 'Emergence'of Crack Injection

Refining Rock: Practical and Social Features of Self-Control among a Group of College-Student Crack Users

Methamphetamine and Other Stimulants

History and Epidemiology of Amphetamine Abuse in the United States

A Very Childish Moral Panic: Ritalin

'The Ice Age': The Social Construction of a Drug Panic

Post-Circuit Blues: Motivations and Consequences of Crystal Meth Use Among Gay Men in Miami

Drugs and the Club Culture

Rise of Hallucinogen Use

Conceptions of Risk in the Lives of Club Drug-Using Youth

Ketamine Injection Among High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings From New York City

Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimisation to a Healthy Settings Approach

Drugs and Crime

The Drugs-Crime Connection

Sex

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