Drugs, alcohol, and social problems
By: edited by James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy
Contributors: Orcutt, James D; Rudy, David R
Series: Understanding social problems
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Drug abuse -- United States; Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- United States; Alcoholism -- United States; Alcoholism -- Social aspects -- United States; Substance abuse -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Constructing the ownership of social problems : fun and profit in the welfare state / Joseph R. Gusfield; title: Deviant drinking as disease : alcoholism as a social accomplishment / Joseph W. Schneider; title: Shocking numbers and graphic accounts : quantified images of drug problems in the print media / James D. Orcutt and J. Blake Turner; title: Comparative ideologies and alcoholism : the Protestant and proletarian ethics / Timothy P. Rouse and Prabha N. Unnithan; title: Setting the public agenda : 'street crime' and drug use in American politics / Katherine Beckett; title: Truth and DARE : tracking drug education to graduation and as symbolic politics / Earl Wysong, Richard Aniskiewicz, and David Wright; title: Explaining racial/ethnic differences in adolescent drug use : the impact of background and lifestyle / John M. Wallace, Jr. and Jerald G. Bachman; title: Drinking by black and white women : results from a national survey / Denise Herd; title: Race, class, and gender differences in substance abuse : evidence of middle-class/underclass polarization among black males / Kellie E.M. Barr ... [et al.]; title: You can't help but get stoned : notes on the social organization of marijuana smoking / Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder; title: Shifts and oscillations in deviant careers : the case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler; title: The 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating / Glenda Kaufman Kantor and Murray A. Straus; title: Drugs-crime connections : elaborations from the life histories of hard-core heroin addicts / Charles E. Faupel and Carl B. Klockars; title: Social misery and the sanctions of substance abuse : confronting HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco / Philippe Bourgois, Mark Lettiere, and James Quesada