List of Figures and Tables xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Source Acknowledgments xxii
About the Editors xxviii
About the Contributors xxx
Matrix of Drugs Addressed xliii
Part I: Perspectives on Drug Use 1
History and Theory
1. Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi: A Brief History of Alcohol 4
2. David F. Musto: The American Disease: Narcotics in Nineteenth-Century America 9
3. James A. Inciardi and Theodore J. Cicero: Black Beauties, Gorilla Pills, Footballs, and Hillbilly Heroin: Prescription Drug Abuse over the Past 40 Years 18
4. Norman E. Zinberg and Wayne M. Harding: Control and Intoxicant Use: A Theoretical and Practical Overview 24
Drug Scares and Moral Panics
5. Joseph R. Gusfield: Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement 33
6. Craig Reinarman: The Social Construction of Drug Scares 40
7. Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes: Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban 48
8. Dale D. Chitwood, Sheigla Murphy, and Marsha Rosenbaum: Reflections on the Meaning of Drug Epidemics 55
Part II: Social Correlates of Drug Use 61
Race/Ethnicity
9. Todd G. Pierce: Gen-X Junkie: Young White Heroin Users in Washington, DC 64
10. Avelardo Valdez, Kathryn Nowotny, and Alice Cepeda: The Intersection of Drug Use and Crime over the Life Course of Mexican-American Former Gang Members 72
11. Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg: Righteous Dopefi end 80
12. Karen A. Joe Laidler: The Lives and Times of Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine Users 87
13. Paul Spicer: Toward a (Dys)functional Anthropology of Drinking: Ambivalence and the American Indian Experience with Alcohol 94
Social Class
14. Eloise Dunlap, Andrew Golub, and Bruce D. Johnson: The Severely Distressed African American Family in the Crack Era: Empowerment Is Not Enough 102
15. Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli: Getting Huge, Getting Ripped: An Exploration of Recreational Steroid Use 112
16. Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger: Drugged Druggists: The Convergence of Two Criminal Career Trajectories 120
17. A. Rafi k Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold: Why Rich Kids Sell Street Drugs: Wankstaz, Wannabes, and Capitalists in Training 131
Gender
18. Katherine Sirles Vecitis: Drugs and Eating Disorders: Women's Instrumental Drug Use for Weight Control 141
19. Robert L. Peralta: College Alcohol Use and the Embodiment of Hegemonic Masculinity among European American Men 152
20. Monica Hardesty and Timothy Black: Mothering Through Addiction: A Survival Strategy among Puerto Rican Addicts 161
Youth and Aging
21. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler: Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 174
22. Meika Loe and Leigh Cuttino: Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students 184
23. Tammy L. Anderson and Judith A. Levy: Marginality among Older Injectors in Today's Illicit Drug Culture: Assessing the Impact of Ageing 193
24. Miriam Williams Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson: Baby Boomer Drug Users: Career Phases, Identity, Self-Concept, and Social Control 203
Part III: Drug Lifestyles 213
Managing Drug Use
25. Brian C. Kelly: Club Drug Use and Risk Management among Bridge and Tunnel Youth 215
26. Rene D. Drumm, Duane C. McBride, Lisa Metsch, Melodie Neufeld, and Alex Sawatsky: I'm a Health Nut! Street Drug Users' Accounts of Self-Care Strategies 224
27. Jose A. Bauermeister: Latino Gay Men's Drug Functionality 231
28. Wendy Chapkis: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Healing 240
29. Patricia A. Adler: The Dealing Lifestyle 249
The Economics of Drugs
30. Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly: Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change? 257
31. Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances 266
Crime and Violence
32. Paul J. Goldstein: The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework 277
33. Bruce A. Jacobs, Volkan Topalli, and Richard Wright: Managing Retaliation: Drug Robbery and Informal Sanction Threats 285
34. Stephanie Brophy: Mexico: Cartels, Corruption, and Cocaine: A Profi le of the Gulf Cartel 295
35. Peter Reuter: Systemic Violence in Drug Markets 305
Part IV: Societal Response to Drug Use 313
Education
36. Earl Wysong and David W. Wright: A Decade of DARE: Efficacy, Politics and Drug Education 316
37. Marsha Rosenbaum: Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education 327
Treatment
38. George De Leon: The Therapeutic Community: Perspective and Approach 336
39. Lee Garth Vigilant: Illness Narratives of Recovering on Methadone Maintenance 344
40. Robert Granfi eld and William Cloud: The Elephant that No One Sees: Natural Recovery among Middle-Class Addicts 351
41. James L. Nolan, Jr: Drug Treatment Courts and the Disease Paradigm 359
Policy
42. Stanton Peele: Reducing Harms from Youth Drinking 370
43. Duane C. McBride, Yvonne Terry-McElrath, Henrick Harwood, James A. Inciardi, and Carl Leukefeld: Refl ections on Drug Policy 378
44. Ethan Nadelmann: Think Again: Drugs 386
45. Harry G. Levine: The Secret of Global Drug Prohibition: Its Uses and Crises 391
Index 400