(eBook PDF) Drug Use in Australian Society Second Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780190306458
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190306458
• Author: Alison Ritter, Trevor King, Nicole Lee

Written by leading experts, Drug Use in Australian Society, Second Edition brings together all the relevant concepts, theories and practices pertinent to understanding alcohol and other drug use in Australian society. It introduces the history of drug use in Australian society and outlines theoretical perspectives. It also explores: the rates of drug use and harms, drug use as framed in the media and popular culture, drugs and the internet, and public policy responses to drug use, including prevention, treatment, legal issues, regulation and policing.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Historical Perspectives on Drug Use and their Possible Implications for the Future

3. Epidemiology: Analysing Patterns of Drug Use and Harms

4. Frameworks for Understanding Drug Use and Societal Responses

5. Images of Drugs in Popular Culture

6. Drugs and the Internet

7. Primary Prevention for Alcohol and Other Drug Use among Australian Adolescents

8. Harm Reduction: Reducing the Harms from Drug Use

9. Drug Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy Treatments

10. Psychosocial Treatments for Drug Problems

11. Drug Laws and Regulations

12. Drug Law Enforcement: Reducing the Supply of Drugs

13. Making Drugs Policy: Policy Models and Influences on Policy Processes

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