Epidemiology of Drug Abuse
As the drug abuse epidemic evolves, so do the tools needed to understand and treat it. Accordingly, Epidemiology of Drug Abuse takes the long view, cogently outlining what the book calls "the natural history of drug abuse" and redefining its complex phenomena to reflect our present-day kno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2005, 2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2005 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors
- Defining and Measuring Drug Abusing Behaviors
- Drug Abuse Heterogeneity and the Search for Subtypes
- Studying the Natural History of Drug Use
- Health, Social, and Psychological Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse
- Epidemiological Methods
- Use of Archival Data
- Sampling Issues in Drug Epidemiology
- Collecting Drug Use Data from Different Populations
- Indirect Methods to Estimate Prevalence
- Qualitative Methods in the Drug Abuse Field
- Ethical Considerations for Drug Abuse Epidemiologic Research
- Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiologic Studies
- A Common Language for a Common Problem: The Developing Role of Drug Epidemiology in a Global Context
- Longitudinal Studies of Drug Use and Abuse
- Drug Abuse and the Spread of Infection: HIV and AIDS as an Example
- Epidemiologic Information and Demand Reduction
- Implications of Epidemiologic Information for Effective Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies
- The Role of Treatment Data in Studying the Epidemiology of Substance Use and Abuse