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Ecstasy and Raves
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 52.95Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ?s and promoters, Hunt, Moloney, and Evans examine the different social groupings that make up the scene. The authors explore the accomplishment of gender, sexuality,... more...
Addiction Research Methods
Wiley 2010; US$ 92.99Addiction Research Methods is a comprehensive handbook for health professionals, policy-makers and researchers working and training in the field of addiction. The book provides a clear, comprehensive and practical guide to research design, methods and analysis within the context of the field of alcohol and other drugs. The reader is introduced to... more...
Addiction
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 85.00Addiction: A Reference Encyclopedia offers straight talk and clear answers on a topic often sensationalized in the media and politicized during campaigns. Drawing from a wide variety of sources, it provides readers with a concise yet thorough review of what we know about all kinds of addictive behavior.||Addiction surveys both the science of addiction... more...
Ashes to Ashes
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 25.00No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process -- financial,... more...
Legalizing Marijuana
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 55.00This book is a frontal assault on the federal government's almost century-long campaign against marijuana in all its forms?cultivation, growing, selling, and recreational and medicinal use. Beginning with the anti-pot campaign of the first unofficial drug czar, Harry Anslinger, in the 1930s and continuing wiht only minor differences in emphasis through... more...
Peddling Poison
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 46.95Documents the tremendous changes in the last decade in the political and legal landscape of tobacco control and how it impacts youth. more...
Keep Your Kids Tobacco-Free
Newmarket Press 2001; US$ 14.95First time in paperback, this easy-to-read, invaluable book offers parents a powerful program for preventing or ending their children's tobacco addiction. Recommended by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Noted family therapist and substance-abuse prevention expert, Dr. Robert Schwebel, shows parents how to help their children make good decisions... more...
The Drug Problem
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 139.00Current approaches to the drug problem are not working and almost everyone agrees that more effective solutions are needed. This comprehensive volume offers a dynamic new approach to understanding and solving the drug problem. This text applies the techniques and formulations of general semantics to investigate and make recommendations about various... more...
Street Capital
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 99.00Presents a new theoretical framework for understanding street cultures based on fieldwork and interviews with dealers aged between 15 and 30, exploring themes including marginalisation, discrimination, cannabis dealing and drug use, violence, masculinity, hip-hop culture, experiences with the welfare system, and issues of immigration and racism. more...
Street Addicts in the Political Economy
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95In this book, Alisse Waterston reveals the economic, political, and ideological forces that shape the nature of street-addict life. Disputing the view that hard-core, low-income drug users are social marginals situated in deviant subcultures, the author dispels popular images of the mythic, dark dope fiend haunting our city streets. Using dramatic,... more...









