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Search - Drugs, Behaviornd Modern Society- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab)

Drugs Behaviornd Modern Society - Value Pack w/MySearchLab
Author: Charles F. Levinthal

MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, M... more »ySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself–including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. This text examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.

Emphasis on the Biopsychosocial Model throughout the book, conceptualizing drug-taking behavior as a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors.
The most comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs of any undergraduate textbook on the market.
Exceptional coverage of steroid abuse and inhalant abuse.
“Quick Concept Checks,” self-gradable questions interspersed throughout the chapters, help assess student understanding of text material.
“Portraits” take students into the lives of individuals who have either influenced thinking about drugs in our society or been impacted by drug use or abuse.
“Drugs?in Focus” tell fascinating stories about the role of drugs in our history and present-day culture.
“Health Line” features provide helpful information regarding specific aspects of drug-taking behavior and new medical applications.
“Health Alert” features provide emergency information about drug abuse situations or recognition signs of serious drug misuse or abuse.
“Point-Counterpoint Debate” features, located at the end of each of the five sections of the book, examine the principal pro and con arguments on important drug-related controversies in a simulated-debate format.
“By the Numbers?” features at the beginning of each chapter provide pithy and provocative statistics relating to drug use and abuse, such as the percentage of people reporting drug abuse as a cause of family trouble (24%), estimated number of illicit drug users worldwide (185 million), or the number of outdoor marijuana plants in the U.S. seized by the DEA in 2003 (1.1 million).
Extensive coverage of important theoretical perspectives on drug abuse:
- The Family Systems Model (Chs. 1, 17, and 18).
- Public Health Model (Chs. 1, 2, and 18).
- Harm Reduction Model (Ch. 2).
- Positions opposing the Disease Model of alcoholism and other forms of drug abuse (Ch. 10).

The use of Drugs in our lives and drug-taking behavior, legally restricted drugs in our society, legal drugs in our society, medicinal drugs, treatment, prevention, and education. Drugs and Behavior

ISBN-13: 9780205697687
ISBN-10: 0205697682
Publication Date: 12/25/2008
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Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Book Type: Paperback
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