Drugs and Society
- ISBN-10
- 1449613691
- ISBN-13
- 9781449613693
- Series
- Drugs and Society
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 641
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-31
- Publisher
- Jones & Bartlett Publishers
- Authors
- Glen Hanson, Peter Venturelli, Annette Fleckenstein
Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, Drugs and Society, Eleventh Edition, contains the most current information available concerning drug use and abuse. Written in an objective and user-friendly manner, this best-selling text continues to captivate students by taking a biological approach to the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of ordinary people. The Eleventh Edition incorporates the authors’ combined expertise in pharmacology, drug abuse, and sociology and extensive experience in research, teaching, drug policy-making, and drug policy implementation and includes hundreds of new citations that reflect the current state of drug abuse issues and the rapidly changing issues of substance abuse/addiction.
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