Illegal Drugs

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Paul Gahlinger has been involved in drug research since 1984 and is a professor of medicine at the University of Utah. He is a certified substance abuse medical review officer, an FAA aviation medical examiner, and a consultant for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, and a passionate spokesperson on drug issues. Klappentext Does Ecstasy cause brain damage? Why is crack more addictive than cocaine? What questions regarding drugs are legal to ask in a job interview? When does marijuana possession carry a greater prison sentence than murder? Illegal Drugs is the first comprehensive reference to offer timely, pertinent information on every drug currently prohibited by law in the United States. It includes their histories, chemical properties and effects, medical uses and recreational abuses, and associated health problems, as well as addiction and treatment information. Additional survey chapters discuss general and historical information on illegal drug use, the effect of drugs on the brain, the war on drugs, drugs in the workplace, the economy and culture of illegal drugs, and information on thirty-three psychoactive drugs that are legal in the United States, from caffeine, alcohol and tobacco to betel nuts and kava kava. Zusammenfassung Does Ecstasy cause brain damage? Why is crack more addictive than cocaine? What questions regarding drugs are legal to ask in a job interview? When does marijuana possession carry a greater prison sentence than murder? Illegal Drugs is the first comprehensive reference to offer timely! pertinent information on every drug currently prohibited by law in the United States. It includes their histories! chemical properties and effects! medical uses and recreational abuses! and associated health problems! as well as addiction and treatment information. Additional survey chapters discuss general and historical information on illegal drug use! the effect of drugs on the brain! the war on drugs! drugs in the workplace! the economy and culture of illegal drugs! and information on thirty-three psychoactive drugs that are legal in the United States! from caffeine! alcohol and tobacco to betel nuts and kava kava. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illegal DrugsPreface Part One: Forbidden Fruit Chapter 1. Flesh of the Gods?or the Devil's Poison? The Discovery of Drugs Substances and spirits The dose makes the poison Use and abuse: the four types of drug Controlled substances How are drugs named? Why Are Some Drugs Illegal? Danger to self Danger to others Danger to society Drug terms Will the "Drug Problem" Ever Be Solved? Chapter 2. The Long, Strange History of Psychoactive Drugs Opium: The Pleasures of Poppy Juice The first drug problem American inventions: the pipe and the syringe Opium Wars "Soldier's disease": morphine in the American Civil War A better morphine: codeine and heroin Addiction alarms Marijuana: The Ancient Herb The big numb A woman's drug Hashish assassins? The sacred becomes profane Rape and dope Marihuana becomes marijuana Marijuana as medicine Modern recreational use Cocaine: The Sacred Leaf Gift from the gods From coca to cocaine The drink of kings and popes Freudian slip Things don't go better with coke Hallucinogens: Mind, Myth, and Madness Eleusian mysteries Fear of witches Do hallucinogens cause hallucinations? Set and setting Military takes notice Psychedelic therapy Counterculture crackdown Chapter 3. The War on Drugs A Century of Increasing Drug Control 1906: Pure Food and Drug act 1909: Smoking Opium Exclusion Act 1915: Harrison Narcotic Act 1917: The first War on Drugs 1920: Prohibition 1937: Marihuana Tax Act 1965: Drug Abuse Control ...

Klappentext
Does Ecstasy cause brain damage? Why is crack more addictive than cocaine? What questions regarding drugs are legal to ask in a job interview? When does marijuana possession carry a greater prison sentence than murder?Illegal Drugs is the first comprehensive reference to offer timely, pertinent information on every drug currently prohibited by law in the United States. It includes their histories, chemical properties and effects, medical uses and recreational abuses, and associated health problems, as well as addiction and treatment information.Additional survey chapters discuss general and historical information on illegal drug use, the effect of drugs on the brain, the war on drugs, drugs in the workplace, the economy and culture of illegal drugs, and information on thirty-three psychoactive drugs that are legal in the United States, from caffeine, alcohol and tobacco to betel nuts and kava kava.

Inhalt
Illegal DrugsPreface
Part One: Forbidden Fruit
Chapter 1. Flesh of the Gods—or the Devil's Poison?
The Discovery of Drugs
Substances and spirits
The dose makes the poison
Use and abuse: the four types of drug
Controlled substances
How are drugs named?
Why Are Some Drugs Illegal?
Danger to self
Danger to others
Danger to society
Drug terms
Will the "Drug Problem" Ever Be Solved?
Chapter 2. The Long, Strange History of Psychoactive Drugs
Opium: The Pleasures of Poppy Juice
The first drug problem
American inventions: the pipe and the syringe
Opium Wars
"Soldier's disease": morphine in the American Civil War
A better morphine: codeine and heroin
Addiction alarms
Marijuana: The Ancient Herb
The big numb
A woman's drug
Hashish assassins?
The sacred becomes profane
Rape and dope
Marihuana becomes marijuana
Marijuana as medicine
Modern recreational use
Cocaine: The Sacred Leaf
Gift from the gods
From coca to cocaine
The drink of kings and popes
Freudian slip
Things don't go better with coke
Hallucinogens: Mind, Myth, and Madness
Eleusian mysteries
Fear of witches
Do hallucinogens cause hallucinations?
Set and setting
Military takes notice
Psychedelic therapy
Counterculture crackdown
Chapter 3. The War on Drugs
A Century of Increasing Drug Control
1906: Pure Food and Drug act
1909: Smoking Opium Exclusion Act
1915: Harrison Narcotic Act
1917: The first War on Drugs
1920: Prohibition
1937: Marihuana Tax Act
1965: Drug Abuse Control Amendments
1970: Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention & Control Act
1972: Nixon's War on Drugs
1981: Reagan's War on Drugs
1984: Comprehensive Crime Control Act
1986: Anti-Drug Abuse Act
1986: Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act
1993: Clinton's War on Drugs
2001: Bush's War on Drugs
How Is a Drug Made Illegal?
How does a substance become a "drug of abuse"?
Five Schedules of Controlled Substances
Drugs Illegal in the United States
Schedule I. Controlled Substances
Schedule II. Controlled Substances
Federal and State Drug Laws
Types of drug crime
Federal drug penalties: marijuana
Federal drug penalties: other drugs
"But Officer . . .!"
Chapter 4. Drug Use and Abuse
The Notion of Substance Abuse
Types of illegal drug use
Drug Use Illnesses
Single-dose problems
Intavenous drug use
Overdose
Long-term problems
Withdrawal
Pregnancy
Addiction
Substance dependence
Stages of addiction
Stages of recovery
Twelve-step program
Drug Resistance Educational Programs
Fads and fashions
Top ten reasons why people use illegal drugs
Top ten reasons why people do not use illegal drugs
Chapter 5. Drugs at Work: Employee Drug Testing
Hazards of Drug Use in Industry
Federal regulations: the NIDA 5
Workplace Drug Monitoring
Americans with Disabilities Act
Drug testing programs
How are people tested for drugs?
Chain of custody
Tampered specimens
Laboratory analysis
Can Drug Tests Be Fooled?

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