Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco : making the science and policy connections /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | xvi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford medical publications |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1507490 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Science and policy: general issues in a special arena
- 1. Substance misuse and the uses of science
- 2. Private behaviour and public policy
- 3. Drugs, science, and policy: a view from the USA Discussion: Games policy-makers play n
- 4. Science policy from a cancer research setting n
- 5. Beyond the invisible college: a science policy analysis of alcohol and drug research Discussion: The optimum conditions for making science happen
- Part II. Prevention: science and policy connections in different substance fields
- 6. Tobacco-related disease
- 7. Alcohol prevention
- 8. Licit psychotropic drugs
- 9. The US anti-drug prevention strategy: science and policy connection
- 10. Commonalities and diversities in the science and policy questions across different substances Discussion future for prevention?
- Part III. Substance misuse: how good is science in responding to suddenly changing policy demands?
- 11. The impact of AIDS on the research agenda
- 12. Cocaine: challenges to research
- 13. Research, policy, and the problems set by rapid, social, economic, and political change
- 14. Action at the local level: aids to strategic thinking
- Part IV. Science and treatment policies
- 15. The nature of the target disorder: an historical perspective
- 16. Prospects, politics, and paradox: pharmacological research and its relevance to policy development
- 17. Psychological treatments: the research and policy connections
- 18. Implications of recent research on psychotherapy for drug abuse
- 19. Appropriate expectations for substance abuse treatments: can they be met?
- 20. Short-term views will not do for long-term problems
- 21. Interpretation of treatment outcome research: skill or racket
- 22. Limits to generalizability in treatment research Discussion: Science and treatment: what message for the policy-maker?
- Part V. The legalization debate: finding the scientific basis for productive discussion
- 23. The great legalization debate
- 24. The rise and fall of epidemics: learning from history
- 25. Behavioural pharmacology of addictive drugs: cost, availability, and individual differences
- 26. Projections of the health consequences of illicit drug use: what contribution to the legalization debate?
- 27. Estimating the social and economic costs and benefits of drug policies
- 28. Psychological issues in drug policies as they bear on the legalization debate Discussion: Research and policy connections beyond the year 2000
- Part VI. A summing-up
- 29. Looking forward
