Download or read book Focus on Cocaine and Crack written by Jeffrey Shulman and published by Twenty First Century Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.
Download or read book Focus on Cocaine and Crack written by Troll Books and published by Troll Communications. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how cocaine and crack affect the mind and body and presents a brief history of cocaine use.
Download or read book Focus on Cocaine and Crack written by Jeffrey Shulman and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Lives written by Claire Sterk and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing insight into drug use from the point of view of female users, this book tells of the complex lives, challenges, and choices of women who use crack cocaine. While popular images of these women present them simply as unreliable individuals, unfit mothers, and women who will do almost anything for crack, Claire Sterk's years of ethnographic research reveal the nature and meaning of crack cocaine use in the larger context of their lives -- including the impact of such issues as gender, class, and race. Focusing on active crack users, Fast Lives compiles information from participant observation, informal conversations, individual interviews, and group discussions. Sterk details the ways in which use affects the lives of these crack users. She captures how these women arrived at their use; how they survive under current circumstances, such as the constant threat of HIV/AIDS and violence; how they combine the multiple social roles of mother and drug user; and how -- as they share their aspirations and expectations for the future -- their stories underscore the effects of poverty, sexism, and racism on their lives. Many of these women recognize their own responsibility for ensuring positive change. Sterk's book, which includes an argument for a harm reduction approach, reminds us that their strength and courage will too often be futile without social policies that are realistic and appropriate for women. Fast Lives will engage readers interested in social problems as well as students of cultural anthropology, sociology, criminology, public health, ethnography, substance abuse, and women's health.
Download or read book Crack written by David Farber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.
Download or read book Destroy Crack Cocaine In 75 Days written by and published by Devil's Candy. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Crack Recovery Workbook written by Crack Recovery and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crack Recovery Workbook: Your Guide to a Life Free From Cocaine, by Crack Recovery is a guide through recovery from all kinds of addiction including, but not limited to crack cocaine, heroin, alcohol, sex, gambling, food and shopping. This is a workbook that will help recovering addicts who are in their early stages of recovery to establish balance and a healthy lifestyle. The Crack Recovery Workbook is a practical daily guide through the world of drug use and abuse and addiction treatment. With a lot of compassion for yourself and a vision for your future, Crack Recovery offers a platform to for you to create the future you desire. The Crack Recovery Workbook is for those who are in recovery from suffering from a full spectrum of addiction, from drugs like crack cocaine, alcohol, emotions, and activity addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, social and digital media, and adrenaline. Do you understand that compulsive behaviors can be as controlling of any other addiction? The process of staying clean and sober and becoming unhooked from any compulsive behavior is a daily activity. As said by many professionals in the addiction field, the question is not "Why the addiction?" but "Why the pain? What pain is your addiction to crack bandaging? With a focus on personal recovery, Crack Recovery takes us through the proven essentials of daily addiction recovery and treatment. This is a groundbreaking journey to freedom from addiction using simple and practical, proven solutions for individuals, families, and communities dealing with substance use and abuse. This recovery workbook will be especially useful if you are in recovery, gone through addiction counseling or therapy, attend 12 step meetings, or any other way of recovery. This is a great workbook to help you overcome your cravings while creating a healthier lifestyle so that you can live the life you've always wanted. The Crack Recovery Workbook provides practical help, comfort, and hope.
Download or read book The Emergence of Crack Cocaine Abuse written by Edith Fairman Cooper and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocaine was once considered the elite's drug, with a price so high that only the very wealthy could afford it, and thought by many to be 'safe'. But during the 1980s, a dangerous and cheap derivative began appearing on the street. This drug, crack, is a cocaine free-base produced relatively safely and easily. Because of its low production costs, crack became popular among the lower classes, leading to an epidemic in the late 1980s, with estimates that over one million people used crack cocaine. The drug's name became synonymous with gangs, crime, and violence. Because of the intensity and apparent suddenness of the crack crisis, people began to wonder if there were any warning signs public officials missed and how exactly crack spread across the nation. Some even floated the theory that agencies like the CIA and FBI encouraged the use of crack in inner cities. No matter where it came from, crack is a menace that, though no longer 'epidemic', must be combated along with all other illegal drugs. This book makes a close examination of the development, responses to, and effect of the crack cocaine crisis in the United States. Included are descriptions of cocaine, crack, and the free-basing process. Also examined are the health questions surrounding the abuse problems and the allegations that governmental authorities had advance knowledge of crack. With the war on drugs a perpetual and critical battle in America, the facts and analyses presented here are of paramount importance to the understanding of a major issue of society's safety.
Download or read book Investigate Cocaine and Crack written by Marylou Ambrose and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a look at the serious and potentially deadly consequences associated with crack and cocaine abuse. Personal stories and the latest statistics bring the dangers of this extremely habit-forming drug into focus.
Download or read book Psychological Effects of Cocaine and Crack Addiction written by Ann E. Holmes and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the problems associated with the use of crack and other forms of cocaine, focusing on the mental and psychological disorders that can occur.
Download or read book Crack Powder Cocaine and Heroin written by Kevin Jack Riley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroin in the Age of Crack Cocaine written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an historical overview of heroin use in the USA, as well as articles by experts in the field which focus on current developments and emerging trends in prevention, treatment, distribution and consumption. Filling a void in the literature on what is known about the `new' heroin users, this volume also updates the reader on the status of ageing heroin-addicted populations who initiated use of the drug prior to the `age of cocaine'.
Download or read book Dealing Crack written by Bruce A. Jacobs and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s, addiction to crack cocaine escalated at an alarming rate. As the demand for crack grew, so did the economic opportunities for entrepreneurial street dealers, who developed criminal underground networks for the supply and retail sale of the high-profit substance. While crack cocaine use has since plateaued and is on the decline, hard-core dealers persist in selling the increasingly unprofitable drug in a high-risk, competitive street market. Bruce A. Jacobs bases his study on dangerous field research conducted in one of the most socially distressed and impoverished neighborhoods in St. Louis. Drawing on no-holds-barred interviews with active dealers, as well as on his own eyewitness observations of transactions and encounters with police, Jacobs captures the crack business as it actually operates on the streets. He examines the underlying motivations for selling crack, describes the complex and intricate social organization of dealing, and explores how dealers protect transactions from law enforcement, undercover police, and criminal predators. Quoting extensively from his conversations with offenders, he conveys much of the fear and aura surrounding the process and lifestyle of crack cocaine dealing. This provocative volume is appropriate for a variety of courses in criminal justice and social problems and gives general readers an inside look at one of America's most troubling problems.
Download or read book Drug Abuse written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cracked Coverage written by Jimmie Lynn Reeves and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, Cracked Coverage stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. Blending theoretical and empirical analyses, Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell explore how TV news not only interprets "reality" in ways that reflect prevailing ideologies, but is in many respects responsible for constructing that reality. Their examination of the complexity of television and its role in American social, cultural, and political conflict is focused specifically on the ways in which American television during the Reagan years helped stage and legitimate the "war on drugs," one of the great moral panics of the postwar era. The authors persuasively argue, for example, that powder cocaine in the early Reagan years was understood and treated very differently on television and by the state than was crack cocaine, which was discovered by the news media in late 1985. In their critical analysis of 270 news stories broadcast between 1981 and 1988, Reeves and Campbell demonstrate a disturbing disparity between the earlier presentation of the middle- and upper-class "white" drug offender, for whom therapeutic recovery was an available option, and the subsequent news treatment of the inner-city "black" drug delinquent, often described as beyond rehabilitation and subject only to intensified strategies of law and order. Enlivened by provocative discussions of Nancy Reagan's antidrug activism, the dramatic death of basketball star Len Bias, and the myth of the crack baby, the book argues that Reagan's war on drugs was at heart a political spectacle that advanced the reactionary agenda of the New and Religious Right--an agenda that dismissed social problems grounded in economic devastation as individual moral problems that could simply be remedied by just saying "no." Wide ranging and authoritative, Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy is a truly interdisciplinary work that will attract readers across the humanities and social sciences in addition to students, scholars, journalists, and policy makers interested in the media and drug-related issues.
Download or read book Crack Cocaine written by Barbara C. Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using first-hand experience, the author presents a practical treatment approach, originally designed for crack patients, but generally applicable to chemical dependency problems. It also explains the social, biological and psychological factors in crack addiction and various barriers to treatment.
Download or read book Kids Crack and the Community written by Barbara Barrett Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the growing epidemic of children born to mothers who use cocaine, particularly the highly addictive version known as "crack," focusing on the health and educational needs of such children. Nine chapters address: (1) the origins of cocaine use in the United States, as well as the chemical properties and physiological effects of the drug; (2) the emergence of crack cocaine in the 1980s and the psychological correlates of crack use; (3) the impact of expectant mothers' crack use on the fetus, and the characteristics of the crack baby; (4) the persistent motor, language, and behavior problems experienced by crack-exposed infants and children; (5) community policies and strategies for dealing with crack-exposed infants; (6) multi-disciplinary support systems for mothers and children, including treatment systems for crack addiction and the prosecution of abusing mothers; (7) care systems for crack-exposed infants and toddlers, and protocols for management of drug-related child abuse; (8) educational policies and practices for use by schools in dealing with crack-exposed children; and (9) classroom management strategies for use with crack-exposed students. Contains approximately 120 references. (MDM)
