Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This text focuses on contemporary interventions and research in the area of offender drug treatment. Topics covered include strategies and alternatives to incarceration across criminal justice settings, employment rehabilitation and related issues such as drug courts and clinical implications...read more

Product Description: How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to combat the destructive effects of illegal drug use. Yet there is a remarkable paucity of data and research information that policy makers require if they are to create a useful, realistic policy package-details about drug use, drug market economics, and perhaps most importantly the impact of drug enforcement activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Today, most substance abuse treatment is administered by community-based organizations. If providers could readily incorporate the most recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of addiction and treatment, the treatment would be much more effective and efficient...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Examines the social conditions surrounding drug use and analyzes how some people are able to control their use of intoxicants and avoid addiction