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 139
... roughly 1 percent of the respondents said that they had ever used heroin , while this was true for 1 in 10 for cocaine . Heroin is used roughly one - tenth as often as cocaine ; the fact that it shows up almost as often in the lethal ...
... roughly 1 percent of the respondents said that they had ever used heroin , while this was true for 1 in 10 for cocaine . Heroin is used roughly one - tenth as often as cocaine ; the fact that it shows up almost as often in the lethal ...
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... roughly half of the clients who enrolled in methadone maintenance programs stayed a year or more ( Senay , 1985 , p . 804 ) ; in another study , their average length of stay was 38 weeks ( Hubbard et al . , 1989 , p . 95 ) . Methadone ...
... roughly half of the clients who enrolled in methadone maintenance programs stayed a year or more ( Senay , 1985 , p . 804 ) ; in another study , their average length of stay was 38 weeks ( Hubbard et al . , 1989 , p . 95 ) . Methadone ...
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... roughly half of money - making street crime in the United States ; roughly a quarter of all urban homi- cides are a result of battles between dealers over drug selling . All this would disappear under legalization . The streets would be ...
... roughly half of money - making street crime in the United States ; roughly a quarter of all urban homi- cides are a result of battles between dealers over drug selling . All this would disappear under legalization . The streets would be ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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