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 59
... substance may be a drug within one definition or sphere of interest but not another . Substances such as primaquine , primadone , prinadol , prio- dox , priscoline , and privine have sufficiently important medical uses to be mentioned ...
... substance may be a drug within one definition or sphere of interest but not another . Substances such as primaquine , primadone , prinadol , prio- dox , priscoline , and privine have sufficiently important medical uses to be mentioned ...
Page 60
... substance a drug entails choos- ing one or another of these dimensions as important and often , ignoring a different one as irrelevant . Note that some definitions are definitions - in - use . By that I mean that in using a substance or ...
... substance a drug entails choos- ing one or another of these dimensions as important and often , ignoring a different one as irrelevant . Note that some definitions are definitions - in - use . By that I mean that in using a substance or ...
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... substance with social reinforcement , exposure to models , definitions through association with using peers , and by the degree to which it is not deterred through bad effects of the substance and / or the negative sanctions from peers ...
... substance with social reinforcement , exposure to models , definitions through association with using peers , and by the degree to which it is not deterred through bad effects of the substance and / or the negative sanctions from peers ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
POTENTIAL VERSUS REALLIFE EFFECTS | 7 |
A DOZEN PRINCIPLES OF CLEAR THINKING ABOUT DRUGS | 13 |
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