Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society (7th Edition)
Product Details
ISBN: 9780205037261Publish Date: 01/09/2011
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon
Number of pages: 464
Description
This text examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.
For undergraduate Drugs and Behavior courses .
In today's world, drugs and their use present a social paradox, combining the potential for good and for bad. As a society and as individuals, we can be the beneficiaries of drugs or their victims.Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, Sixth Edition features a comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs, and is notable for the attention it gives to two aspects of drug-taking behavior that have been underreported in other texts: steroid abuse and inhalant abuse.