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| Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poor. Inner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively respond. New Drugs on the Street: Changing Inner City Patterns of Illicit Consumption tackles this problem by presenting the latest ethnographic and epidemiological studies of emerging and changing drug use behaviors in the inner city. This one-of-a-kind resource provides the latest research to help readers reconceptualize ways to think about today.s drug use to more effectively address the growing problem. New Drugs on the Street reveals the nature and direction of the latest drug use and is essential reading for health professionals in the health social sciences, public health, nursing, and substance abuse fields that deal with low income, ethnic minority, and inner city populations. |
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| Binding: Hardcover |
| Specs: 162 pages | .01 Lbs |
| ISBN: 0789030500 |
| ISBN-13: 9780789030504 |
| Edition: 1 |
| Publisher: Haworth Press | Publish Date 02/06 | Copyright 2006 |
Table Of Contents:
New drugs on the street : an introduction
Merrill Singer
"Rollin' on E" : a qualitative analysis of ecstasy use among inner city adolescents and young adults
Julie M. Eiserman, Sarah Diamond, Jean J. Schensul
The diffusion of ecstasy through urban youth networks
Jean J. Schensul, Sarah Diamond, William Disch, Rey Bermudez, Julie Eiserman
When the drug of choice is a drug of confusion : embalming fluid use in inner city Hartford, CT
Merrill Singer, Greg Mirhej, Susan Shaw, Hassan Saleheen, James Vivian, Erica Hastings, Lucy Rohena, DeShawn Jennings, Juhem Navarro, Claudia Santelices, Alan H. B. Wu, Andrew Smith, Alberto Perez
Under the counter : the diffusion of narcotic analgesics to the inner city street
James Vivian, Hassan Saleheen, Merrill Singer, Juhem Navarro, Greg Mirhej
Response to trauma in Haitian youth at risk
Richard Douyon, Louis Herns Marcelin, Michele Jean-Gilles, J. Bryan Page |
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