Drugs, society, and behavior 02/03 / editor, Hugh T. Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Living with drugs: Perils of pills / N. Shute, T. Locy, and D. Pasternak; E-commerce / E. Brown; American banks and the war on drugs / S. Bender; American's war on drugs / J.S. Wenner -- Understanding how drugs work, use, dependency, and addiction: Drugs that flip your switches, top to toe / A. Derrington; Learning about addiction from the genome / E.J. Nestler and D. Landsman; Cognition is central to drug addiction / S. Carpenter; How it all starts inside your brain / S. Begley; How addictive is cigarette smoking? / W.M. London -- Major drugs of use and abuse: Drinking to get drunk / D.L. Marcus; Drug that pretends it isn't / A. Quindlen; Speed demons / K.T. Greenfeld -- Other trends in drug use: Playing with pain killers / C. Kalb; Are you man enough? / R. Lacayo; Recreational pharmaceuticals / J. Cloud; Scouting a dry campus / D. McGinn -- Natural hazards / A. Spake; Recognizing the dangers of GHB / T. Porrata -- Drugs and crime: Organized crime in narcotics trafficking / J. Salzano and S.W. Hartman; Drugs, crime, prison, and treatment / C. Blanchard -- Measuring the social cost of drugs [Cont. in Annot.]

[TofC cont.] Wrong race, committing crime, doing drugs, and maladjusted for motherhood, the nation's fury over "crack babies" / E. Logan; Drug courts, making prison sentences a thing of the past? / J.J. Mountjoy -- Creating & sustaining effective drug control policy: War and fear in Putumayo / M. Delcas; Science and drug abuse control policy / M.A. Kleiman; What's your anti-drug? / S. Wishnia and J. Kelemen; Drug crazy feds / R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.-- Prevention and treatment: Talk to kids about drugs? Parents just don't do it / S. Schultz; Deep cravings / C. Lambert; Drug education, the triumph of bad science / J. Cohn -- Glossary. The articles contained in [this book] are a collection of facts, issues, and perspectives designed to provide the reader with a framework for examining current drug-related issues. The book is designed to offer students something to think about and something with which to think. It is a unique collection of materials of interest to the casual as well as the serious student of drug-related social phenomena.-To the reader.