Drugs in American SocietyThis edition probes the drug phenomenon in all its social, cultural and legal complexity. It covers the full range of psychoactive drug use, from legal medical and prescription use to criminal, recreational use, from casual use to addiction. |
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Page 97
... difficult for the nonaddict to fit in with and be capable of tolerating the addict's lifestyle , so marriage and a family are a chancy proposition unless the addict's spouse is also addicted . Further , since heavy opiate use depresses ...
... difficult for the nonaddict to fit in with and be capable of tolerating the addict's lifestyle , so marriage and a family are a chancy proposition unless the addict's spouse is also addicted . Further , since heavy opiate use depresses ...
Page 195
... difficult to establish in the lab- oratory since animals found the drug so unpleasant that it was difficult to induce them to self - administer it . It took researchers many years to figure out a way of getting laborato- ry animals to ...
... difficult to establish in the lab- oratory since animals found the drug so unpleasant that it was difficult to induce them to self - administer it . It took researchers many years to figure out a way of getting laborato- ry animals to ...
Page 404
... difficult to deny that availability plays a substantial role . We should also keep in mind the fact that , as a general rule , legal drugs tend to have high continuation rates , while illegal drugs have far lower continuation rates ...
... difficult to deny that availability plays a substantial role . We should also keep in mind the fact that , as a general rule , legal drugs tend to have high continuation rates , while illegal drugs have far lower continuation rates ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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