Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment
By: Natarajan, Mangai (Edited by).
Ashgate Publishing Group. Published: 28/03/2010.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
Ever since the Shanghai convention in 1909, the threat posed to human well-being by drug abuse has led countries around the world to take action to deal with their drug problems. There are wide variations in the policies pursued, but most countries try to reduce both the supply of and the demand for drugs. Unfortunately, there is little research consensus on the respective merits of these two approaches or about the best ways to pursue them. Consequently, control and prevention policies are mostly driven by political considerations, economic realities and cultural expectations, though research has played an important part in formulating and evaluating treatments for drug addiction.
This volume reviews studies on drug abuse prevention and treatment strategies under five main areas: Reducing supply - strategies to control the flow of drugs from production to retail distribution; Reducing demand - prevention of drug use at all stages of involvement and consumption levels; Reducing harm - promoting situational risk reduction practices for regular users, addicts and recreational users; Reducing addiction - drug treatment options for various groups in various settings; and Drug policies and prescriptions - focused on debates about prohibition and legalization. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0754627756/9780754627753
TITLE: Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment
CONTRIBUTORS: Natarajan, Mangai (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Ashgate Publishing Limited
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 28/03/2010
SUBJECT: Law, General Law
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 169mm x 244mm
PAGES: 498
CONTENTS: Part 1 Reducing Supply: Evaluating explanations of the Australian 'heroin shortage', L. Degenhardt, P. Reuter, L. Collins and W. Hall; Changes in Canadian heroin supply coinciding with the Australian heroin shortage, E. Wood, J. Stoltz, K. Li, J.S.G. Montaner and T. Kerr; Strategies to avoid arrest: crack sellers' response to intensified policing, B.D. Johnson and M. Natarajan; A spatial analysis of green teams: a tactical response to marijuana production in British Columbia, A.E. Malm and G.E. Tita; Police officers on drug comers in Philadelphia: drug crime, and violent crime: intended, diffusion, and displacement impacts, B.A. Lawton, R.B. Taylor and A.J. Luongo; The multilateralization of policing: the case of illicit synthetic drug control, A. Cherny, J. O'Reilly and P. Grabosky.; Part 2 Reducing Demand: Reports of substance abuse prevention programming available in schools, Z. Sloboda, A. Pyakuryal, P.C. Stephens, B. Teasdale, D. Forrest, R.C. Stephens and S.F. Grey; Promoting science-based prevention in communities, J.D. Hawkins, R.F. Catalano and M.W. Arthur; Faith-based prevention model: a rural African American case study, A.E. Barry, M.S. Sutherland and G.J. Harris; Assessing the effects of school based drug-education: a 6 year multilevel analysis of Project DARE, P.D. Rosenbaum and H.S. Gordon; Effectiveness of community-based outreach in preventing HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users, R.H. Needle, D. Burrows, S.R. Friedman, J. Dorabjee, G. Touze, L. Badrieva; J. Grund, M.S. C. Kumar, L. Nigro, G. Manning and C. Latkin; Valuation of a media campaign aimed at preventing initiation into drug injection among street youth, E. Roy, V. Denis, N. Gutierrez, N. Haley, C. Morissette and J. Boudreau.; Part 3 Reducing the Harms or Risks Associated with Drug Abuse: HIV incidence among injection drug users in New York City, 1990 to 2002: use of serologic test algorithm to assess expansion of HIV prevention services, D.C. Des Jarlais, T. Perlis, K. Arasteh, et al; Patterns of HIV prevalence and HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users prior to and 24 months following implementation of cross-border HIV prevention interventions in northern Vietnam and southern China, T.M. Hammett, R. Kling, P. Johnston, N.D. Wei Liu, P. Friedman, K. Binh, H. Dong, L.K. Van, D. Meng, C. Yi and D.C. Des Jarlais; Full participation in harm reduction programmes is associated with decreased risk for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus: evidence from Amsterdam cohort studies among drug users, C. van den Berg, C. Smit, G. van Brussel, R. Coutinho amd M. Prins; Characteristics of young illicit drug injectors who use North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility, J.M. Stoltz, E. Wood, C. Miller, W. Small, K. Li, M. Tyndall, J. Montaner and T. Kerr; Incidence of heroin use in Zurich, Switzerland: a treatment case register analysis, C. Nordt and R. Stohler; Substance abuse and quality of life over 12 months among buprenorphine maintenance-treated and methadone maintenance-treated heroin-addicted patients, I. Maremmani, P.P. Pani, M. Pacini and G. Perugi.; Part 4 Reducing Addiction through Treatment and rehabilitation: The effectiveness of drug abuse treatment: a meta-analysis of comparison group studies, M.L. Prendergast, D. Podus, E. Chang and D. Urada; Different needs: women's drug use and treatment in the UK, M. Simpson and J. McNulty; Assessing sex differences on treatment effectiveness from the Drug Abuse Outcome Studt (DATOS), S. Acharyya and H. Zhang; Behavioral treatment approaches for methamphetamine dependence and HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among urban gay and bisexual men, S. Shoptaw, C.J. Reback, J.A. Peck, X. Yang, E. Rotheram-Fuller, S. Larkins, R.C. Veniegas, T.E. Freese and C. Hucks-Ortiz; Drug user treatment within a criminal justice context, M. Hough; Substance use, drug treatment and crime: an examination of intra-individual variation in a drug court population, D.C. Gottfredson, B.W. Kearley and S.D. Bushway.; Part 5 Drug Policy and Prescriptions: To legalize or not to legalize? Economic approaches to the decriminalization of drugs, A.L. Bretteville-Jensen; Legalization of marijuana: potential impact on youth, A. Joffe and W.S. Yancy; The economics of drug prohibition and drug legalization, J.A. Miron; Drug policy developments within the European Union, C. Chatwin; Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate, R. MacCoun and P. Reuter; Optimal control of drug epidemics: prevent and treat - but not at the same time?, D.A. Behrens, J.P. Caulkins, G. Tragler and G. Feichtinger; Index.
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