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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.

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

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)

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