Substance use & abuse : cultural and historical perspectives

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Label

Substance use & abuse : cultural and historical perspectives

Title remainder

cultural and historical perspectives

Statement of responsibility

Russil Durrant, Jo Thakker

Title variation

Substance use and abuse

Creator

• Durrant, Russil

Contributor

• Thakker, Jo

Subject

• Drug abuse -- Social aspects
• Drug abuse -- Social aspects
• Electronic books
• Geschichte
• Kultur
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Social Environment
• Soziologie
• Substance abuse -- Social aspects
• Substance abuse -- Social aspects
• Substance-Related Disorders -- history
• Substance-Related Disorders -- psychology
• Drogenmissbrauch

Language

eng

Summary

"Substance Use and Abuse: Cultural and Historical Perspectives provides an inclusive explanation of the human desire to take drugs. Using a multidisciplinary framework, authors Russil Durrant and Jo Thakker explore the cultural and historical variables that contribute to drug use. Intergrating biological, psychosocial, and cultural-historical perspectives, this innovative and accessible volume addresses the fundamental question of why drug use is such a ubiquitous feature of human society."--Jacket

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

306/.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

HV4998

LC item number

.D87 2003eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2003 O-066
• WM 270

NLM item number

D965s 2003