An interdisciplinary coverage of drug issues, this text examines drug use and abuse from historical, cultural, social, psychological, biological and medical perspectives. This edition features discussions of herbal preparations, hormones and over-the-counter drugs, and explores the late-1990s data on drug use patterns and social trends, such as the recent increase in heroin addiction and its impact. The book also discusses the developing issues surrounding substances such as tobacco, Ritalin and the rape drugs, "Roofies" (rohypnol) and GHB.
- ISBN10 0155083562
- ISBN13 9780155083561
- Publish Date 15 September 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 November 2004
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English