Additional product details
eText:
ISBN-10 1-4496-1575-9, ISBN-13 978-1-4496-1575-8
Print:
ISBN-10 0-7637-7488-X, ISBN-13 978-0-7637-7488-2
Author(s): Dwight Vick, Assistant Professor and Graduate Director, Public Administration and Political Science, West Texas A&M University
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Copyright year: © 2011 Pages: 400
Description
"Drugs & Alcohol in the 21st Century: Theory, Behavior, & Policy" examines the collective response to addictive behaviors in America, and its influence on the creation and implementation of national policy in the 20th and 21st century. A close look is given to America’s response to five drugs with ambiguous political histories – alcohol, cocaine, hallucinogens, marijuana, and opiates. The physical and psychological conditions that contribute to addictive behaviors are explored, as well as how those condition impact individuals, families and communities. Responses from politicians, the alcohol and drug industry, citizens groups, and bureaucracies including law enforcement, public health, schools and colleges are discussed.
