Overview
Provides educators, researchers and the lay public a general overview of the current knowledge within the field of drug abuse epidemiology
Serves as a supplement to other course offerings in epidemiology, public health, health education or drug abuse
Also serves as a general reference for those with an interest in learning more about the field of drug abuse epidemiology
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors
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Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiologic Studies
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Epidemiologic Information and Demand Reduction
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About this book
As the drug abuse epidemic evolves, so do the tools needed to understand and treat it. Accordingly, Epidemiology of Drug Abuse takes the long view, cogently outlining what the book calls "the natural history of drug abuse" and redefining its complex phenomena to reflect our present-day knowledge. Twenty-six eminent contributors discuss the state and future of the field, balancing the practical concerns involved in gathering drug abuse data with the ethics of using the information.
- Current thinking on pathways and etiology, as well as medical, psychological, and social sequelae of drug abuse
- Proven, up-to-date methodologies for assessment
- Challenges of gathering data from high-risk and other user populations
- Sampling and application issues
- Uses, sources, and limitations of treatment data
- Analytical papers applying the methodologies to specific and global studies
- The role of epidemiology studies in developing prevention strategies
With this multifaceted approach to the subject, Epidemiology of Drug Abuse provides researchers and educators with a reference that sheds significant light on infrequently covered areas. In addition, its breadth and accessibility of coverage make it a teaching text suitable to courses in epidemiology, public health, and drug abuse.
Reviews
"Many who promote a demand-reduction philosophy for solving the nation's substance abuse policy cite a disparity between the funding levels for interdiction versus those for demand-reduction activities. In part, the disparity can be attributed to an ability of the interdiction side to quantify its needs and its successes. Epidemiology may be the best tool at our disposal for decreasing this level-of-resource disparity by leading the field toward more quantification- and evidence-based interventions. Sloboda's work may help to accomplish this very worthy goal."
James M. Topolski, Ph.D., from PsycCritiques, April 12, 2006, Vol. 51 (15), Article 9
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Epidemiology of Drug Abuse
Editors: Zili Sloboda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105372
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-24415-0Published: 01 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9564-3Published: 11 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-24416-7Published: 02 June 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 240
Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology