Actions for Drug use in metropolitan America
Drug use in metropolitan America / Robert M. Bray, Mary Ellen Marsden, editors
- Published
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]
- Copyright Date
- ©1999
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 344 pages :) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Bray, Robert M. and Marsden, Mary Ellen
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Impact of Drug Use in Metropolitan America -- Robert M Bray, Mary Ellen Marsden and Amy A Vincus; The Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Drug Study (DC & MADS) -- Robert M Bray; Drug Use among Household and Nonhousehold Populations -- Mary Ellen Marsden and Robert M Bray; Drug Use and Homelessness -- Michael L Dennis et al; Drug Use Among the Institutionalized Population -- Gregory H Gaertner and Linda J Keil; Drug Involvement among Offender Populations -- David Cantor; Patterns of Use among Drug Treatment Clients -- Patrick M Flynn, James W Luckey, and Sara C Wheeless; Drug Use and Pregnancy -- Wendy A Visscher, Robert M Bray, and Larry A Kroutil; Comparing and Integrating Findings across Populations -- Robert M Bray, Larry A Kroutil, and Sara C Wheeless; Implications of Findings for Policy and Research -- Robert M Bray and Mary Ellen Marsden;
- Summary
- Recounting the five year study recently completed by the Research Triangle Institute of drug use in Washington DC, this text integrates the findings and places them in the context of a national drug abuse problem, crime and homelessness.
- Subject(s)
- Drug abuse—United States
- Drug addiction
- City dwellers
- Drug abuse
- Substance-Related Disorders—epidemiology
- Urban Population
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Toxicomanie—États-Unis
- Toxicomanie
- Citadins
- PSYCHOLOGY—Psychopathology—Addiction
- SELF-HELP—Substance Abuse & Addictions—General
- Drogenmissbrauch
- District of Columbia
- United States
- USA
- ISBN
- 9781452221403 (electronic bk.)
1452221405 (electronic bk.)
9781452204833 (ebook)
1452204837 (ebook)
0761903747 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0761903755 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780761903758
9780761903741 (cloth ; acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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