Drug abuse Summary

Conduct Disorder and Drug Use A behavior pattern characterized by such behaviors as stealing, violence, running away from home, and truancy occurs in about 10 percent of children under 16 years of age... Read more

Cults and Drug Use The relationship between cults and drug use is complex and contradictory. Traditionally, cults are groups that diverge from major religions or that form new philosophical/religious ... Read more

Drug Abuse Reporting Program (Darp) The Drug Abuse Reporting Program began in 1969 as a comprehensive data system that included intake and during-treatment information on individuals entering drug tre... Read more

Drug Interaction and the Brain When two or more drugs are taken at the same time complex interactions may occur. Drugs can interact to change biological functions within the body through PHARMACOKINET... Read more

Epidemics of Drug Abuse Hearing the word epidemic, one often thinks first of the flu, measles, the ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS), or some other contagious disease spreading through a commu... Read more

Gender and Complications of Substance Abuse Does gender have an in-fluence on whether a drug has complications? There is limited research available to answer this question, for many studies include me... Read more

Personality as a Risk Factor for Drug Abuse The term personality refers to those relatively enduring aspects of attitudes, feelings, responses, and behaviors that permit us to recognize a particular p... Read more

Poverty and Drug Use One of the most popular stereotypes about drug use is that it is more prevalent among the poor. In fact, a lack of money—in itself—does not seem to be associated wit... Read more

Social Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Drinking, smoking, and the use of psychotropic drugs have a variety of consequences for those who partake of them, for their families and associates, and for soc... Read more

Terry & Pellens Study In a time when the use of many drugs is illegal in the United States and the public is inundated with information on such drug use, it is probably surprising that this set... Read more

Complications from Injecting Drugs Many injectable drugs are used for medical purposes. Some of these prescription drugs are used illegally, as are a variety of street drugs. Illegal and abused inject... Read more

Drug and Alcohol Use Among the Elderly Elderly people are the fastest-growing segment of the world population, and they consume about 25 percent of all the medicines prescribed. Because aging causes c... Read more

Families and Drug Use Have you ever questioned which came first: the chicken or the egg? That age-old question is much like the dilemma experts grapple with: Do problems in family life lead to drug ad... Read more

Medical Emergencies and Death from Drug Abuse Each year, thousands of individuals of all ages visit hospital emergency departments due to medical problems stemming from drug abuse. Sometimes they die ... Read more

Risk Factors for Substance Abuse What makes a person abuse drugs? Some people never use drugs, even if drugs are easy for them to obtain. Others use drugs occasionally or regularly for years but never... Read more

Drugs and Vietnam The use of drugs by the American military in Vietnam was not a recognizable problem during the early stages of the war. However, as the conflict dragged on, drug use among the troops... Read more

IN LOS ANGELES a twenty-something fashion photographer goes to the Room, a back-alley bar with no sign over its entrance. Around midnight a man walks in and hands the photographer a packet of heroin i... Read more

“Although addiction is the result of voluntary drug use, addiction is no longer voluntary behavior, it’s uncontrollable behavior.” —Alan Leshner, director of the National Insti... Read more