Drugs and Substance Abuse Problems: Interdisciplinary Studies of Causes, Consequences and Preventions
Paul, Madan C. (Ed.)
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Book ID : 29299
ISBN-10 : 81-7099-976-6 / 8170999766
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language : English
With a foreword by Dr. Karan Singh; xiv, 302p., Figs., Tables, App., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Foreword; Introduction; List of Contributors; 1. Drug Dependence-The Dead End; 2. Drug Dependence Phenomenon in India; 3. Drug, Drug Abuse and Psychological; 4. Drug Use Among Asian-Indian Adolescents; 5. Nature and Magnitude of Drug Abuse and Trafficking in India and Asian Region; 6. Dimensions and Magnitude of Drug Abuse in India; 7. Youth and Drug Abuse Issue-Problems and Prevention; 8. Youth's Propensity to Dependence Producing Substances; 9. Methodological Issues and Drug Abuse Research; 10. Substance Abuse in India; 11. Drug Culture, Its Effects on Youth and Prevention Strategies; 12. Tobacco Smoking is Injurious to health? 13. Risk-Taking Behaviour among Youth and Dependence Producing Substances; 14. Injecting Drug Use in Mizoram; 15. Lifestyle Changes Among Youth and Drug Abuse;
DESCRIPTION
Drug and substance abuse culture is a serious problem acquiring an epidemic form and proportion engulfing the younger generation all over the world due to various psychological, social, cultural, economic and political factors. The unprecedented spurt of drug production, consumption and trafficking in many parts of the globe has now become a well-organised billion dollar 'business' To cope with these multidimensional problems arising out of this drug abuse culture the government has evolved several demand and supply reduction strategies and programmes within the national and international legal framework. All these strategies attempted at various levels have impacted the problems in varying degrees in the proliferation and control in different areas like prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, production, consumption and trafficking. The relationship between HIV/AIDS and the intravenous drug use is not uncommon now. Moreover, emerging problems of Nacro-terrorism and drug trafficking are now serious issues which warrant urgent attention and policy directions. Unfortunately, in spite of all the mechanisms developed so far they could not check totally the proliferation due to many inherent weaknesses in many of these control strategies. The area is fertile for serious academic discourse both in terms of theory and practice in not only understanding the problems in their entirety but also in evolving appropriate demand and supply reduction mechanisms. This pioneering volume consisting of sixteen research articles addresses some of these problems. The complexity of the problem has been analysed from an inter-disciplinary approach. The papers are written by well-known social scientists, researchers and enforcement persons.
