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Geography and Drug Addiction

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Yonette F. Thomas

    1. National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Epidemiology Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, Bethesda, USA

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  2. Douglas Richardson

    1. Association of American Geographers, Washingotn, USA

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  3. Ivan Cheung

    1. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, USA

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  • The only book focused on the intersection of geography and drug abuse research
  • Multidisciplinary chapters combining the methodologies of both social and physical sciences
  • These unique mixed-methodological approaches move beyond more traditional research in the field of drug abuse and provide fresh perspectives

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Placing Substance Abuse

    • Sara McLafferty
    Pages 1-16

  3. Integrating Geography and Social Epidemiology in Drug Abuse Research

    • Yonette Thomas, Douglas Richardson, Ivan Cheung
    Pages 17-26

  4. Integrating GIS into the Study of Contextual Factors Affecting Injection Drug Use Along the Mexico/US Border

    • Kimberly C. Brouwer, John R. Weeks, Remedios Lozada, Steffanie A. Strathdee
    Pages 27-42

  5. The Spatial Context of Adolescent Alcohol Use*

    • Karen A. Snedker, Jerald R. Herting
    Pages 43-63

  6. Migration Patterns and Substance Use among Young Homeless Travelers

    • Stephen E. Lankenau, Bill Sanders, Jennifer Jackson Bloom, Dodi Hathazi, Erica Alarcon, Stephanie Tortu et al.
    Pages 65-83

  7. Residential Mobility and Drug Use Among Parolees in San Diego, California and Implications for Policy

    • Meagan Cahill, Nancy La Vigne
    Pages 85-115

  8. Social Disorganization, Alcohol, and Drug Markets and Violence*

    • Aniruddha Banerjee, Elizabeth LaScala, Paul J. Gruenewald, Bridget Freisthler, Andrew Treno, Lillian G. Remer
    Pages 117-130

  9. Integrated Assessment of Addiction Epidemiology in Hong Kong, 1996–2005

    • Shui Shan Lee, Phoebe TT Pang
    Pages 131-144

  10. Residential Segregation and the Prevalence of Injection Drug Use among Black Adult Residents of US Metropolitan Areas

    • Hannah L.F Cooper, Samuel R. Friedman, Barbara Tempalski, Risa Friedman
    Pages 145-157

  11. The Relationship of Ecological Containment and Heroin Practices

    • Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda
    Pages 159-173

  12. Comparing Unintentional Opioid Poisoning Mortality in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Counties, United States, 1999–2003

    • Nabarun Dasgupta, Michele Jönsson Funk, John S. Brownstein
    Pages 175-192

  13. Spatial Patterns of Clandestine Methamphetamine Labs in Colorado Springs, Colorado

    • Max Lu, Jessica Burnum
    Pages 193-207

  14. A Therapeutic Landscape? Contextualizing Methamphetamine in North Dakota

    • Kevin Romig, Alex Feidler
    Pages 209-220

  15. Are Spatial Variables Important? The Case of Markets for Multiple Drugs in British Bengal

    • Siddharth Chandra, Aaron Swoboda
    Pages 221-242

  16. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Rates and Heroin Trafficking: Fearful Symmetries

    • Chris Beyrer
    Pages 243-254

  17. Metropolitan Area Characteristics, Injection Drug Use and HIV Among Injectors

    • Samuel R. Friedman, Barbara Tempalski, Hannah Cooper, Spencer Lieb, Joanne Brady, Peter L. Flom et al.
    Pages 255-265

  18. Factors Influencing Drug Use and HIV Risk in Two Nicaraguan Cities

    • Michele G. Shedlin, Rita Arauz, Pascual Ortells, Mariana Aburto, Danilo Norori
    Pages 267-285

  19. Drug Use and HIV/AIDS: Risk Environments in Post-Soviet Russia

    • Dominique Moran
    Pages 287-303

  20. Substance Abuse and HIV in China

    • Xiushi Yang
    Pages 305-318
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About this book

Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections – connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes. It involves understa- ing the relationships and ‘connections’ between seemingly disparate or unrelated ideas and between what is and what might be. Geography also involves connecting with people. When I rst encountered an extraordinarily vibrant, intelligent, and socially engaged scientist at a private d- ner several years ago, I was immediately captivated by the intensity of her passion to understand how and why people become addicted to drugs, and what could be done to treat or prevent drug addiction. Fortunately, she was willing to think beyond the bounds of her own discipline in her search for answers. Our conversation that evening, which began with her research on fundamental biochemical processes of drug addiction in the human body, evolved inevitably to an exploration of the ways in which research on the geographical context of drug addiction might contribute to the better understanding of etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable environmental, social, and economic factors, and the strategies for its treatment and prevention. This fascinating woman, I soon learned, was Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse as well as the granddaughter of Leon Trotsky.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Epidemiology Research Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, Bethesda, USA

    Yonette F. Thomas

  • Association of American Geographers, Washingotn, USA

    Douglas Richardson

  • Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, USA

    Ivan Cheung

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