Crack In America Demon Drugs and Social Justice by CraigReinarman, Harry Gene Levine Paperback, 359 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20242-9, ISBN: 0-520-20242-2
""Crack in America" is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context - as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs - and it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own righ ..."
"The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the historical and cultural interstices in which the disease concept of addiction is constructed and deployed. The readings selected for this antholo ..."
"The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the historical and cultural interstices in which the disease concept of addiction is constructed and deployed. The readings selected for this antholo ..."
Cocaine Changes(Reprint) The Experience of Using and Quitting (Health Society And Policy) by Dan Waldorf, CraigReinarman, Sheigla Murphy Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1992 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56639-013-2, ISBN: 1-56639-013-3
"These findings were followed by those of Norman Zinberg, a professor of
psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. During the 1970s he undertook a series of
related studies of people who used heroin and other drugs in controlled,
nonaddictive ways. At first most other experts and funding agencies insisted that
heroin was invariably addicting and that such occasional heroin users simply did
not exist. But Zinberg was able to demonstrate ..."
American States of Mind(1st Edition) Political Beliefs and Behavior Among Private and Public Workers by CraigReinarman Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 1987 by Yale Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-300-03817-0, ISBN: 0-300-03817-8
"Additionally, I wish to thank Larry T. Reynolds for his intellectual support and
editorial expertise. Moreover, I am indebted to those who wrote original
contributions for ... The editor and publisher also wish to thank the following who
have kindly given permission for use of copyright materials. "Criminology: An
Integrat ionist Perspective," Diane Fishbein, original ... "Evaluation of Structural
Functionalism," Alex Thio. Pp. 32- ..."
Cocaine Changes The Experience of Using and Quitting (Health, Society, and Policy Series) by Dan Waldorf, Sheigla Murphy, CraigReinarman Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 1991 by Temple Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-87722-863-9, ISBN: 0-87722-863-9
"Documents the dangers of cocaine and contends that the national hysteria over it is largely unfounded. This book demonstrates that what keeps many heavy users from falling into the abyss of abuse and what helps retrieve those who do fall is a stake in conventional life: jobs, families, friends."
Crack in America(1st Edition) Demon Drugs and Social Justice by CraigReinarman, Harry Gene Levine Hardcover, 388 Pages, Published 1997 by Univ Of California Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20241-2, ISBN: 0-520-20241-4
"Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical contextas the latest in a long line of demonized drugsand it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own ri ..."
American States of Mind Political Beliefs and Behavior among Private and Public Workers by CraigReinarman 272 Pages ISBN-13: 978-0-7837-4550-3, ISBN: 0-7837-4550-8
"Contributors. Bruce. K. Alexander. is a psychologist and Professor emeritus at
Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Professor
Alexander is the author of Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Outof the War on
Drugs and The Globalization of Addiction: A Studyin Poverty of the Spirit. He has
also published numerous articles on drug use and drug policy including the
pioneering experiments on ... Philippe. Bourgois. ..."
"Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of mental illness itself. Although debates over these issues ..."
"This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of mental illness itself. Although debates over these issues are ongoing, there are few comprehensive resources for addressing such dilemmas in the pr ..."