The American Drug Culture

Dr. Weinberg is the author or editor of four books (two monographs and two edited volumes). He is Associate Editor of Ethnographic Studies and Sexuality & Culture and a referee for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. He is a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior, edited by the late Clifton Bryant (2012). Dr. Weinberg is currently working with data gathered from a sample of sadomasochists, who were interviewed about their coming-out experiences. Gerhard Falk is Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo State University. He has written, co-authored or edited 24 books, and published more than 40 journal articles, on subjects as diverse as the American criminal justice system, political assasination and terrorism, deviant behavior by health care workers, inventions that changed American society, and fraudulant behavior by scientists, researchers, and scholars. Ursula Falk is psychotherapist in private practice, with many years of experience working with substance abusers. Her work on the book will be limited to the proposed micro-level cases studies of individuals with substance abuse problems.

Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction: Sociological and Other Explanations for Drug and Alcohol Use and Abuse The Growing Nationwide Opioid Epidemic Sociological Explanations Criminological Explanations Feminist Approaches Other Perspectives Researching Drug and Alcohol Use Chapter 2: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs The War on Drugs and the Federal Schedules "Good Drugs" and "Bad Drugs": The Media, Labeling, and the Changing Image of Marijuana Is There a Drug Epidemic? Trends in Drug Use Chapter 3. Drinking Alcohol: The Alcohol Culture Ideological Alcohol Culture Behavioral Alcohol Culture Material Alcohol Culture Social Functions of Drinking Brief History of Drinking in America Drinking and Occupations Chapter 4: Alcohol and Social Institutions Alcohol and the Family Alcohol and Religion Alcohol and Education Alcohol and Government Alcohol and Public Opinion Chapter 5: Benefits and Costs of Alcohol Benefits of Alcohol Costs of Alcohol 6. Alcohol in Popular Culture Depictions of Drinking and Alcohol in Art Movies and Television Commercials Alcohol and Music Magazines Alcohol and Literature Drinking Games Jokes Chapter 7: Alcohol and Sexual Behavior Drinking and Disinhibition People and Places: Drinking Contexts and Sexuality Chapter 8: Alcoholism Perspectives On and Explanations of Alcoholism Becoming Alcoholic Relapse and Abstinence Cycles The Family and Alcoholism Treating Alcoholism Chapter 9: The History of Drug Use in America and Attempts to Control it The Origin of Hashish and the Persian Assassins Chinese Opium Wars Controlling Drug Use The Geneva International Commission Medicalizing Drug Use The Drug Abuse Warning Network The Marijuana Controversy Chapter 10: Drugs in Popular Culture Art Literature and Poetry Music Comedy Magazines Movies and Television Relationship between Licit and Illicit Drug Use and the Media Relationship Between Marijuana, Heroin, and Other Harder Drugs: Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug? Chapter 11: Becoming a Drug User: Careers, Personalities, and Interaction - Two Perspectives A Psychotherapeutic Approach A Reporter's Observations A Sociological Perspective Chapter 12: The Business of Drug Use: Crime and Law Enforcement The Mexico-U.S. Drug Connection Drugs and Secondary Deviance Women and Drug Dealing Crack Dealing Drugs and the Mafia Drug Cartels and the Market for Drugs Law Enforcement Medical Professionals and Drugs Chapter 13: Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Prevention Efforts Programs Directed at Youth Diversion: Drug Court Psychotherapy Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Rehabilitation Program Studies Informal Self-Help Programs: Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous Therapeutic Communities Methadone Maintenance An Innovative Approach Unconventional Approaches Appendix A: Case Histories: Alcohol Abusers Appendix B: Case Histories: Drug Abusers References Index

"[The American Drug Culture] addresses professionals and substance use, an important topic. It also provides case studies, which is very useful." -- Jane Nichols