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Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts And Control, 5th Ed.
Michael D. Lyman, Gary W. Potter
Regular Price: $62.95
Publisher: Anderson Publishing
Format: softbound; 525 pp.
ISBN: 9781593453220
  ©2007

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This work focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decisionmaking within this complex and multi-disciplinary field. Broken into three sections: Understanding the Problem, Gangs and Drugs, and Fighting Back, topics covered include the business of drugs and the role of organized crime in the drug trade, drug legalization and decriminalization, legal and law enforcement strategies, an analysis of the socialization process into drug use and abuse, and a historical discussion of drug abuse that puts the contemporary drug problem into perspective.


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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

 Part I: Understanding the Problem

Chapter 1  The Nature of the Drug Problem

Chapter 2  The History of Drug Abuse

Chapter 3  Understanding Drugs of Abuse

Chapter 4  The Illicit Drug Trade

Chapter 5  Domestic Drug Production

Chapter 6  Drugs and Crime

 Part II: Gangs and Drugs

Chapter 7  Organized Crime and the Drug Trade

Chapter 8  Domestic Drug Trafficking

Chapter 9  Foreign Drug Trafficking Organizations

 Part III: Fighting Back

Chapter 10  The Drug Control Initiative

Chapter 11  Critical Issues in Drug Control

Chapter 12  The Issue of Legalizing Drugs

Chapter 13  Understanding Drug Control Policy

Chapter 14  Control through Treatment and Prevention

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