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Chemical Highs
Chemical Highs looks at how young people themselves develop and share with their peers a multitude of ways to maximize the pleasures and minimize the...
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Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms
Research suggests that reducing rates of drug addiction requires a range of physical spaces where drug users and counselors can meet, build...
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The Need to Rethink “Recovery”
Recovery is often understood and sometimes even interchangeably used, as part of formal treatment. As recent developments in policy and research...
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Extending the Neuromatrix
Early in this chapter I introduce Melzack’s concept of the neuromatrix and then extend it beyond the human brain into a wider metaphor for a cultural...
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Societal and Individual Impacts of Substance Abuse
A drug, distinct from food, is a chemical substance that alters physiological and psychological functioning. Drug addiction, resulting from repeated...
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Adolescent cannabis users who have never smoked a combustible cigarette: trends and level of addictive drug use from 1976 to 2020
BackgroundAdolescents cannabis users are at a substantially elevated risk for use of highly addictive drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and nonmedical...
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Don’t Fear the Reefer? The Social Equity and Community Planning Implications of New York’s Recreational Cannabis Law on Underserved Communities
In 2021, New York State passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA). The Act legalized adult-use recreational cannabis and allowed for...
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How opioids became “safe”: pharmaceutical splitting and the racial politics of opioid safety
This article explores how opioid painkillers, known for over a century to be highly addictive, came to be considered a safe treatment for chronic...
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Map** Silenced Spaces During Increased Overdose and COVID-19: Opportunities for Danger and Harm Reduction in Southern Appalachia
There has long been a lack of reliable and current public health data on overdose deaths, houselessness, and additional morbidities associated with...
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Social Work and Inclusive Society in Germany
The distinction between inclusion and exclusion has become a central concept in welfare state analyses and social work theory in Germany. One of the...
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The Brain in Treatment Settings
This chapter discusses references to the brain in addiction treatment settings. In these settings, conceptions surrounding the brain and neuroscience...
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Mothers’ Perspectives on Abuse by Adult Children
This chapter examines violence in the families of older adults by focusing on an understudied subject, older mother’s subjective experiences of being...
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Association between marijuana use and nonmedical prescription opioid use in the United States: are we shifting from one epidemic to another?
The United States (US) is grappling with a severe opioid epidemic. Marijuana is emerging as a therapy for pain management and an alternative to...
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From Treatment to Containment to Enterprise: An Ethno-history of Therapeutic Communities in Puerto Rico, 1961–1993
Unpaid work is now a central therapy in Puerto Rican therapeutic communities, where substance users reside and seek to rehabilitate each other, often...
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Identity Integrity in Psychiatry
In this chapter it is argued that the increasing impetus to use neurotechnologies to alter, control, or manipulate human behavior reflects an...
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The Role of Structural Factors in Selected Health Programs
This chapter explores how the structural factors relevant to aid relationships, namely, aid predictability and flexibility, stakeholders’ capacities,...
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Improving Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Persons Involved in the Opioid Crisis
This chapter provides a multifaceted framework of data and research methodologies for the purposes of improving prevalence estimates of all opioid...
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Sexual Risk Among African Americans in Substance Use Treatment: Secondary Analysis of Two Clinical Trials
African Americans who use substances experience a particular risk for HIV. Negative attitudes towards condoms are a strong predictor of risk and can...