The insights of sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and astrology have
been applied to the behaviors, values, and social norms of our rapidly growing youth culture …

Recent studies of drug use and abuse have substantiated the need for construction of
instruments that are specific to the drug problem itself. The-rapidly increasing incidence of …

Monitoring revealed a consistent relationship between attitude and use for those drugs
which showed a definite trend in use, whether upward or downward. Increasing use, which …

The New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission undertook a survey of the state
to gather information on community attitudes and knowledge of drugs and drug abuse. An …

Current theories of drug addiction tend to be moralistic rather than scientific. Any satisfactory
theory must attempt to account for the fact that the repeated administration of opiates …

Few issues in contemporary American life arouse more anxiety, fear, and irrationality than
“student drug abuse.” Opponents of drug use consider it self-indulgent and degenerate, a …

A study of the total drug use (prescription, over-the-counter, and social) of 600 young adults,
18-21 years of age, demonstrated that 75% had ingested alcohol, 91% caffeine, 41 …

Presents a sociological framework for the comparative analysis of social drug effects and
applies it to middle-class marihuana and alcohol use. The typical effects of these 2 drugs are …

To conclude, we must understand that narcotic addiction is a complex multi-faceted problem
which has not responded to traditional rehabilitation approaches. There appears to be a …

Abstract [presents a] model of adolescent drug abuse [that] deals with the special
[physiological, psychological, cultural] problems of adolescents/the therapist treating an …