The American Drug Scene: Readings in a Global Context

About this book

Now in its seventh edition The American Drug Scene edited by James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns problems perspectives and policies of legal and illicit drug use. Offering a unique focus on the social contexts in which drug usage drug-related problems and drug policies occur it presents theoretical and descriptive material drawn from both ethnographic and quantitative sources.