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By James D. Orcutt,David R. Rudy,Patricia A. Adler,Peter Adler,Richard Aniskiewicz,Jerald G. Backman,Grace M. Barnes,Kellie E.M. Barr,Katherine Beckett,Philippe Bourgois,Michael P. Farrell,Charles E. Faupel,Joseph R. Gusfield,Denise Herd,Glenda Kaufman Kanto

medications, Alcohol, and Social difficulties, a set edited James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy, comprises 14 sincerely written articles that exemplify the easiest of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol difficulties. The readings strike a stability among constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic ways to the research of consuming, drug use, and comparable difficulties reminiscent of household violence, crime, and the unfold of HIV/AIDS. A normal creation and 5 part introductions written particularly for this quantity spotlight uncomplicated theoretical questions and analytical topics that run in the course of the articles. not like many books on difficulties of substance use, medicinal drugs, Alcohol, and Social difficulties devotes equivalent recognition to drug- and alcohol-related concerns. the amount is prepared round vital theoretical and study techniques to the sociology of social difficulties, making it appropriate for adoption as a complement in undergraduate classes on social difficulties in addition to for extra really expert undergraduate and graduate classes within the sector of drug and alcohol studies.

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