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 148
... drinkers or drug users commit crimes , or that no drinkers or nonusers of illegal drugs commit crimes . The correlation merely expresses a statistical likelihood : Drinkers and drug users are statistically more likely to do so , even ...
... drinkers or drug users commit crimes , or that no drinkers or nonusers of illegal drugs commit crimes . The correlation merely expresses a statistical likelihood : Drinkers and drug users are statistically more likely to do so , even ...
Page 189
... drinkers in a social category , the lower the likelihood that the members of that category will be abusive drinkers . This is not always the case , however ; some groups in the population have extraordinarily high proportions of drinkers ...
... drinkers in a social category , the lower the likelihood that the members of that category will be abusive drinkers . This is not always the case , however ; some groups in the population have extraordinarily high proportions of drinkers ...
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... drinkers ; a quarter of the men ( 24 percent ) said that they were " binge " drinkers , or drank five or more times on at least one occasion over the past month , while less than a tenth ( 9 percent ) of the women did ; and nearly a ...
... drinkers ; a quarter of the men ( 24 percent ) said that they were " binge " drinkers , or drank five or more times on at least one occasion over the past month , while less than a tenth ( 9 percent ) of the women did ; and nearly a ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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