Henry H. Brownstein is a Senior Fellow in the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Criminal Justice Studies Department at NORC- at the University of Chicago, USA and Professor and Director of the Center for Public Policy at the Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He is the author of several books, including The Methamphetamine Industry in America: Transnational Cartels and Local Entrepreneurs (2014), Contemporary Drug Policy (2013), and The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime (2000).

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• List of Contributors xNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgements xxiPart I Understanding Drugs in Society 11 Drugs and Society 3Henry H. BrownsteinPart II The Use and Marketing of Particular Drugs in Society 152 Alcohol: Wide]Ranging Problems, Inadequate Responses 17Norman Giesbrecht and Robin Room3 Global Marijuana Cultivation and Societal Place Because and In Spite of US Policy and Perception 53Charles Hogan and Scott Jacques4 Heroin and Other Opiates 72Timothy W. Kinlock and Michael S. Gordon5 Cocaine Powder and Crack Cocaine: A Changeable History? 90Paul Gootenberg6 Methamphetamine 109Ralph A. Weisheit7 Prescription Drugs 128Brian C. Kelly and Mark Pawson8 Designer Drugs 149Dina PerronePart III Explaining the Place of Drugs in Society 1759 Drug Use as a Socially Constructed Problem 177Peter J. Venturelli10 Social Scientific Theories of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction 197Stephen J. Bahr and John P. Hoffmann11 The Intersection between Neurobiological and Psychological Theories of Substance Use Disorders 218Arielle R. Baskin]Sommers and Bridget A. HearonPart IV Studying Drugs in Society 23712 Ethnographic Studies of Drugs in Communities 239Sheigla Murphy, Paloma Sales, and Sheigla Averill13 Measurement and Design Challenges in the Study of Drugs and Society 258Eric L. Sevigny and Brian FuleihanPart V What We Know and Do Not Know about Drugs and Public Health and Safety 28314 What Has Been Learned from Research on the Drugs–Crime Connection? 285Trevor Bennett and Jason Edwards15 The Impact of Illicit Drugs on Public Health 300Louisa Degenhardt and Wayne D. Hall16 Research on Drugs and Social Characteristics 320Kathryn M. Nowotny, Jessica Frankeberger, and Alice Cepeda17 Public Safety and Public Health in a Geographic and Economic Context 335Paul Draus and Juliette RoddyPart VI Drugs and Adverse Social Experience 36918 Drugs and Violent Crime 371Henry H. Brownstein19 Drugs and Violence in Personal and Intimate Relationships 387Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers20 Markets and Distribution Systems: The Birth, Growth, and Transformation of UK Drug Markets 416Tiggey May and Bina BhardwaPart VII Drugs as an Illicit Enterprise 44321 The Criminalization of (Some) Drug]Involved People 445Neil McKeganey22 The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution 460Geoffrey Hunt and Karen Joe]Laidler23 Displacement Effects of Supply]Reduction Policies in Latin America: A Tipping Point in Cocaine Trafficking, 2006–2008 482Juan Carlos Garzón and John BaileyPart VIII Responding to the Problem and Problems of Drugs in Society 50524 Drug Law Enforcement 507Andrew Golub, Alex S. Bennett, and Luther C. Elliott25 Drug Abuse Prevention through Early Childhood Intervention 525Elizabeth B. Robertson, Belinda E. Sims, and Eve E. Reider26 Dealing with Drug Users: Treatment 555TaLisa J. Carter and Daniel O’Connell27 Drug Policy in the United States: A Dynamic Multilevel Experimental Environment 574Duane C. McBride and Yvonne Terry]McElrathIndex 594