This full color market leading text provides the latest information on drugs and the effects on society and
human behavior. Instructors and students have relied on it for over twenty-five years to examine Drugs and behavior
from the behavioral, pharmacological, historical, social, legal, and clinical perspectives.
Starting July 1999 it will be easier to keep current, as Drugs, Society and Human Behavior will come with access
to Annual Editions Online: Drugs, Society and Behavior 99/00, 14e. Each text is packaged with a token that will
allow the user to enter a password protected site that will have 20 current articles on the topic of substance
use and abuse.
Features:
New section on addiction treatment including stages of change model and description of motivational interviewing
(chapter 3).
New Web Watch provides quality web sites for each chapter.
New author web site provides on-line links to web resources. Also, author will provide updates by chapter for
instructor use with the text. (http://www.uwyo.edu/a&s/psyc/dshb.htm)
Coverage of new hot topics such as the Ultra Rapid Opiate Detoxification treatment (ch. 3 and 15); GHB (gamma
hydroxy buterate chapter 8); and Rohypnol and the new date rape laws.
New section on addiction treatment including stages of change model and description of motivational interviewing
proivdes the latest ideas on treatment.
Updated For Your Information and Up for Debate features provide opportunities to develop critical thinking
skills and pique student interest on topics such as the controversy surrounding the diet drugs, Fen/Phen, Redux
and the recently released Meridea.
Assess Yourself! Activities conclude each section and help students apply the material.
Enhance student learning by providing a strong pedagogical system consisting of Chapter objectives, key terms,
definition boxes, FYI, Up for Debate, Your Turn, and DSM-IV boxes, chapter summaries, review questions.
Table of Contents
Section One: Drug Use in Modern Society
1 Drug Use: an Overview
2 Drug Use as a Social Problem
3 Addictions: Theory and Treatment
4 Drug Regulations
Section Two: How Drugs Work
5 The Nervous System
6 The Action of Drugs
Section Three: Uppers and Downers
7 Stimulants
8 Depressants and Inhalents
9 Psychotherapeutic Drugs
Section Four: Alcohol
10 Alcohol in the Body
11 Alcohol and Society
Section Five: Familiar Drugs
12 Tobacco
13 Caffeine
14 Over-the-Counter Drugs
Section Six: Restricted Drugs
15 Opiates
16 Hallucinogens
17 Marijuana and Hashish
18 Steroids and Other Drugs in Sport
Section Seven: Reducing the Demand
19 Breaking the Cycle
A Drug Names
B Resources for Information and Assistance
