Download or read book Club Drugs Aren t Fun Drugs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Club Drugs Aren't 'Fun Drugs'" is an article written by Alan I. Leshner, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse within the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The article discusses the hazards of using club drugs, which are used by young adults at all-night dance parties, dance clubs, and bars.
Download or read book Ecstasy and Other Club Drugs written by Tara Koellhoffer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about ecstasy and other club drugs, including their history, how they are distributed, physical and psychological effects, and treatment options for addicts.
Download or read book Investigate Club Drugs written by Alison Eldridge and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Club drugs refer to a wide variety of dangerous drugs often used by young adults at all-night dance parties, dance clubs and bars. The best known of the so-called club drugs used is ecstasy, but there are many others. Club drugs are also sometimes used as "date rape" drugs, to make someone unable to say no to or fight back against sexual assault. This book presents information about ecstasy and other club drugs, including their history, how they are distributed, and their physical and psychological effects highlighted by personal stories.
Download or read book Clubs Drugs Canapes written by Nick Valentine and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with a bottle of Milk Thistle and unshakeable optimism, Nick Valentine has spent most of his adult life in fifth gear, betting on a Royal Flush while covertly holding a pair of deuces. This is his story, the odyssey of a suburban bloke who has blagged, lucked and laughed his way into just about every party, club, stage and hot-tub imaginable. Following his first brush with celebrity at an impressionable age, and spending his teens and twenties as, amongst other things, a journalist, publicist, club promoter, musician and DJ, Nick eventually banked in the shallows of party central. He spent 15 years as a social editor on London’s celebrity canapé circuit, while co-founding the Entertainment News press agency. An enterprising period acting as a social PR to the super-rich led to him co-founding three London nightclubs in quick succession, including the much lauded Cuckoo Club. With the West End as his nocturnal playground, he then bid sleep a final fond farewell. Nick professes to have attended well over 5,000 parties in his time, drunk enough champagne to test the Thames barrier and occasionally made it home in time for Countdown. 'I'm a night person,' he says. 'The trouble is I'm a morning and afternoon person as well.' This account is a surprisingly touching, light-hearted look at the daily mechanics of enjoying life to the max and then some.
Download or read book Drugs Clubs and Young People written by Bill Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, contributors employ sociological and public health perspectives to offer insights into behaviours common at raves and nightclubs. The volume provides theoretical observations on illicit club drug use and supply, helping to challenge current orthodoxies on the role of drug use within young peoples' lives. Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, the volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations surrounding young people who attend clubs and/or use club drugs. This work provides a badly needed and objective analysis of youthful drug use, and a foundation from which future sociological and public studies on young people, clubs and drugs - as well as young people themselves - will benefit.
Download or read book Drug Use for Grown Ups written by Dr. Carl L. Hart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being illegal, and a hopeful reckoning with the possibility of their use as part of a responsible and happy life Dr. Carl L. Hart, Ziff Professor at Columbia University and former chair of the Department of Psychology, is one of the world's preeminent experts on the effects of so-called recreational drugs on the human mind and body. Dr. Hart is open about the fact that he uses drugs himself, in a happy balance with the rest of his full and productive life as a researcher and professor, husband, father, and friend. In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, he draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use--not drugs themselves--have been a tremendous scourge on America, not least in reinforcing this country's enduring structural racism. Dr. Hart did not always have this view. He came of age in one of Miami's most troubled neighborhoods at a time when many ills were being laid at the door of crack cocaine. His initial work as a researcher was aimed at proving that drug use caused bad outcomes. But one problem kept cropping up: the evidence from his research did not support his hypothesis. From inside the massively well-funded research arm of the American war on drugs, he saw how the facts did not support the ideology. The truth was dismissed and distorted in order to keep fear and outrage stoked, the funds rolling in, and Black and brown bodies behind bars. Drug Use for Grown-Ups will be controversial, to be sure: the propaganda war, Dr. Hart argues, has been tremendously effective. Imagine if the only subject of any discussion about driving automobiles was fatal car crashes. Drug Use for Grown-Ups offers a radically different vision: when used responsibly, drugs can enrich and enhance our lives. We have a long way to go, but the vital conversation this book will generate is an extraordinarily important step.
Download or read book Youth Drugs and Nightlife written by Geoffrey Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth, Drugs, and Night Life explores the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ’s and promoters, the authors explore the accomplishment of gender, sexuality and Asian American ethnicity and the negotiation of risk and pleasure within these scenes. The authors pivot from the local to the national to the global in this qualitative analysis of the scene and its inhabitants
Download or read book Patterns and consequences of drug use written by United States. Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contexts of Deviance written by J. William Spencer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most readers focus more on deviance than sociology, Contexts of Deviance: Statuses, Institutions, and Interactions brings sociology front and center by examining deviance and social control in their social contexts. This fresh and innovative anthology shows students how deviance and control can be studied at different levels of analysis and from a range of theoretical approaches using different methodologies. The collection is divided into six parts: theory, social control, statuses and identities, institutions, subcultures, and social movements. The readings range from classic to contemporary pieces, from macro-level studies to studies of face-to-face encounters. Contexts of Deviance also represents a wide range of theoretical traditions--from functionalist and critical to post-modern and interactionist. Introductions in each section help students to understand what it means to study deviance and control in a social context, to appreciate research questions at different levels of analysis, and to recognize how a positivist orientation is different from a subjectivist orientation. An instructor's manual and test bank prepared by Thomas N. Ratliff (Arkansas State University), Jessica Middleton (University of California at Irvine), and Ashley Swan (Arkansas State University) are available for qualified instructors.
Download or read book The Addicted Brain written by Michael J. Kuhar and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Addicted Brain" explains clearly and vividly what has been learned about how and why some people become addicted and abuse drugs or other substances, the relatively long-term changes these substances can make in the brain, and the progress being made on treatments.
Download or read book The Book of Drugs written by Mike Doughty and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.
Download or read book Random Family written by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.
Download or read book Alters Schiff Essential Concepts for Healthy Living written by Jeff Housman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every new print copy includes Navigate Advantage access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Now in it's ninth edition, Alters & Schiff Essential Concepts for Healthy Living provides students with all the information they need to know to make informed health decisions and embrace a healthy lifestyle. Integrating evidence-based data and statistics with hands-on, critical thinking activities, the text guides readers toward healthy living through an analysis of their own health behaviors. The authors combine evidence-based information with critical thinking activities to guide students toward healthy living through analysis of their own health behavior. The Eighth Edition is updated with the latest topics and issues related to sexuality, gender and culture, community violence, consumer health, and much more. Through active use of the text students wil
Download or read book Cool Hip Sober written by William Henry Manville and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a refreshingly clear-headed and informed approach to addiction, Bill Manville, noted writer and radio host of the popular talk show "Addictions and Answers," has compiled a list of 88 questions and answers from, "a ton of plain and fancy drunks and dopers" and their family and friends. Cool, Hip, and Sober offers valuable advice and information from his guests: noted psychiatrists, psychologists, rehab counselors, MDs, academics and more. Here, in first-person detail, are responses to the issues faced by alcoholics, addicts, and their loved ones, such as: * How can I stop for good today? * How can I tell if someone I love will relapse? * Alcholism . . . addiction . . . and sex * Do interventions really work? And how do I set up one? * How do I find the best rehab for me? * The many faces of denial * Is alcoholism inherited? * And much, much more . . . A brave, transformational look at the treatment of chemical dependency, Cool, Hip & Sober is a captivating, insightful and essential handbook for overcoming denial and achieving a peaceful, long-term recovery.
Download or read book Alters and Schiff Essential Concepts for Healthy Living written by Jeff Housman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Eighth Edition urges students to think critically about their health and overall wellness and empowers them, with clearly identified tools, to help them reach this goal.
Download or read book Substance Abuse written by Joyce H. Lowinson and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier text on substance abuse and addictive behaviors is now in its updated and expanded Fourth Edition, with up-to-the-minute insights from more than 150 experts at the front lines of patient management and research. This edition features expanded coverage of the neurobiology of abused substances, new pharmacologic therapies for addictions, and complete information on “club drugs” such as Ecstasy. New sections focus on addiction in children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly and women’s health issues, including pregnancy. The expanded behavioral addictions section now includes hoarding, shopping, and computer/Internet abuse. Includes access to a Companion wesbite that has fully searchable text.
Download or read book Essential Concepts for Healthy Living Update written by Sandra Alters and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health & Wellness
