Product Description: Use this valuable knowledge about drug-taking behavior to plan strategies to prevent or reduce drug-taking among youth. The findings from this unique study have important implications for researchers, educators, practitioners, and local and state policymakers and planners for the development of initiatives for addressing smoking, drinking, and drug use among early adolescents and teenagers...read more

Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities! Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues brings you the voices of drug abuse researchers who discuss the most important concerns about conducting research in drug-taking minority populations. In this strategy-based book, you’ll find yourself beneficially involved in a discussion of many of the central methodological advances facing researchers today, specifically in the target area of minority communities and their drug-using societies. Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations presents crucial recommendations and strategies that will lead you toward unprecedented effectiveness and efficiency when researching this subsection of the world’s drug users. In addition, find new ways to involve community members in the research process, and you’ll come to more fully understand the impact of cultural values, attitudes, and norms in the drug-taking patterns of minority persons. With this book, you will learn more about: the importance of advisory boards, gatekeepers, and indigenous workers in this type of research the crucial role of incentives in recruiting and retaining minority persons in drug abuse studies focus groups as tools to minimize selection bias of minority subjects how cultural values may affect research strategies how research teams can facilitate the collection of data within minority communities Researchers, college educators, and substance abuse practitioners will find that Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations improves their efforts to produce more viable data in a much shorter time span.

Describes the history of and practices associated with Jewish festivals, as well as customs and traditions of the Jewish home.

Product Description: The classic Skid Rows of the 1930s are virtually gone today, having been replaced by street populations comprised chiefly of members of different ethnic groups, largely members of minority populations. Homelessness and Drinking is a comprehensive study of one such homeless group in Anchorage, Alaska...read more

Product Description: Discover fresh perspectives on alcoholism treatment and research with this enlightening new book describing the work of researchers at the Novosibirsk Medical Institute, USSR. By using specific examples of their studies in Siberia, the reserachers offer an innovative approach to the treatment of addictive disorders in general...read more

Product Description: Perspectives on Adolescent Drug Use provides an understanding of the nature of the problem of drug-taking among adolescents in order to plan effective countermeasures. Although contemporary research has provided descriptions of adolescent patterns and trends, an important issue is whether these portrayals are accurate because they may not correctly reflect the patterns and trends of drug and alcohol use among minority subgroups, such as Native-American or Latino adolescents...read more

Product Description: Perspectives on Person-Environment Interaction and Drug-Taking Behavior is a comprehensive review of the interactionist approach to drug use from both a theoretical and applied perspective. This highly important volume offers a timely depiction of the complex multidimensional relationships involving the person, the environment, the drugs used, and the biological processes involved in drug-taking behavior...read more

Product Description: The most crucial issues concerning the causes and treatment of alcoholism are discussed in this stimulating and provocative volume. Leading experts critically review a number of topics prevailing in the field of alcoholism today that have direct implications for practitioners and researchers...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Here you’ll find perceptive critical analyses of areas of concern within the field that have important implications for both research endeavors and clinical intervention.

Product Description: Book by Segal, B., Huba, G. J., Singer, J. L.