Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco : making the science and policy connections
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Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco : making the science and policy connections
（Oxford medical publications）
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The misuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco poses problems of international importance, to which much research is devoted. Basic research is directed at the psychological, biological and genetic basis of substance dependence, but valuable contributions also arise from the fields of social science, economics and historical scholarship. How can the findings of this research be translated into effective policies? This book explores ways of building better bridges beween the scientific and policy worlds in the field of substance abuse. Subjects discussed include the responsiveness of science to changing policy demands, prevention in different substance fields, treatment policies, issues of legalization, and prospects for future developments. The contributors are leading authorities from many countries, with experience in treatment work, pure and administrative research, and dialogue with government.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Science and policy - general issues in a special arena: substance misuse and the uses of science, Griffith Edwards
- private behaviour and public policy, Laurence E. Lynn Jr
- drugs, science and policy - a view from the USA, Robin Room
- discussion - games policy-makers play
- science policy from a cancer research setting, Walter Bodmer
- beyond the invisible college - a science policy analysis of alcohol and drug research, Thomas F. Babor
- discussion - the optimum conditions for making science happen. Part 2 Prevention - science and policy connection in different substance fields: tobacco-related disease, Robert West
- alcohol prevention, Reginald Smart
- licit psychotropic drugs, Malcolm Lader
- the US anti-drug prevention strategy - science and policy connection, Herbert Kleber
- commonalities and diversities in the science and policy questions across different substances, Marcus Grant
- discussion - what future for prevention? Part 3 Substance misuse - how good is science in responding to suddenly changing policy demands: the impact of AIDS on the research agenda, Gerry Stimson and John Strang
- cocaine - challenges to research, Charles Schuster and Steven W. Gust
- research, policy and the problems set by rapid social, economic and political change, Robin Room
- action at the local level - aids to strategic thinking, David Robinson. Part 4 Science and treatment policies: the nature of the target disorder - an historical perspective, Virginia Berridge
- prospects, politics and paradox - pharmacological research and its relelvance to policy development, Roger E. Meyer
- psychological treatments - the research and policy connections, Ray Hodgson
- implications of recent research on psychotherapy for drug abuse, Kathleen M. Carroll and Bruce J. Rounsaville
- appropriate expectations for substance abuse treatments - can they be met?, A. Thomas McLellan et al
- short-term views will not do for long-term problems, Anders Romelsjo
- interpretation of treatment outcome research - skill or racket, D. Colin Drummond
- limits to generalizability in treatment research, Marc Alan Shuckit
- discussion - science and treatment, what message for the policy-maker? Part 5 The legalization debate - finding the scientific basis for productive discussion: the great legalization debates, Harold Kalant
- the rise and fall of epidemics - learning from history, David F. Musto
- behavioural pharmacology of addictive drugs - cost, availability and individual differences, Ian Sherman
- projections of the health consequences of illicit drug use - what contribution to the legalization debate?, John Strang and Graham Medley
- estimating the social and economic costs and benefits of drug policies, Dean R. Gerstein
- psychological issues in drug policies as they bear on the legalization debate, Richard Jessor
- discussion - research and policy connections beyond the year 2000. Part 6 A summing up: looking forward, Jerome H. Jaffe.
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