Clayton Mosher (Washington State University Vancouver), Scott Akins (USA Oregon State University)

Drugs and Drug Policy

The Control of Consciousness Alteration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging and thoroughly updated, this text provides a global perspective on the use and regulation of legal and illegal drugs. It examines drug policies in terms of their scope, goals, and effectiveness, as well as the effects of  drugs, the patterns and correlates of use, and theories of the causes of drug use.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 256mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1048g
• ISBN-13: 9781544351124
• ISBN-10: 1544351127
• Artikelnr.: 59914904

Autorenporträt

Clayton Mosher received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto, and is currently a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the author of several books and articles in the areas of inequality in criminal justice system processing, drugs and drug policies, and the impact of prison construction on employment. Besides co-authoring the Second Edition of Drugs and Drug Policy, he co-authored the Second Edition of The Mismeasure of Crime (SAGE, 2012) with Terance Miethe and Timothy Hart.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Drug Controversies and Demonization
2. Theories of Drug Use
3. The Effects of Drugs: Part I
4. The Effects of Drugs: Part II
5. Patterns of Illegal Drug Use
6. Patterns of Legal Drug Use
7. Drug Prevention Programs
8. Drug Treatment
9. Policies Regulating Legal Drugs, Part I: Alcohol and Tobacco
10. Policies Regulating Legal Drugs, Part II: Prescription and
Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Herbal Supplements
11. Policies Regulating Illegal Drugs
12. Drug Policies in Other Countries and U.S. Influence