| Description |
xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Methamphetamine abuse in Japan: its 45 year history and the current situation / Hiroshi Suwaki, Susumu Fukui and Kyobei Konuma -- Amphetamine abuse in Sweden / Kerstin Käll -- The phenomenology of amphetamine use in Germany / Wolfgang Heckmann -- Chasing 'ecstasy': use and abuse of amphetamine in the Netherlands / Margriet W. van Laar and Inge P. Spruit -- Economic forces driving manufacture, trafficking and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants / Thomas Pietschmann -- Patterns of amphetamine misuse in seven nations: factors affecting growth and decline / Hilary Klee |
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Use and misuse of amphetamine: an internatinoal overview / Tokuo Yoshida -- Amphetamine misusers in contemporary Britain: the emergence of a hidden population ; A typology of amphetamine users in the United Kingdom / Hilary Klee -- Treatment for amphetamine misuse in the United Kingdom / Judith Myles -- Patterns of amphetamine use in Australia / Julie Hando and Wayne Hall -- History and epidemiology of amphetamine abuse in the United States / Marissa A. Miller -- The legacy and the paradox: hidden contexts of methamphetamine use in the United States / Patricia Morgan and Jerome E. Beck -- Kinship and community: the 'ice' crisis in Hawaii / Karen A. Joe-Laidler and Patricia Morgan -- The methamphetamine-HIV connection in northern California / Rachel Anderson and Neil Flynn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Amphetamine abuse -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Amphetamine abuse.
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Amphetamines.
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Substance abuse.
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Amphetamines.
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Substance-Related Disorders.
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| Author |
Klee, Hilary.
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| ISBN |
9057020793 |
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9057020815 |
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