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Author Levinson, Martin H., 1946-

Title The drug problem : a new view using the general semantics approach / Martin H. Levinson ; foreword by Paul Dennithorne Johnston
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [2002]
©2002

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 W'PONDS  362.290973 Lev/Dpa  AVAILABLE
Description x, 206 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Paul Dennithorne Johnston -- Pt. I. A General Semantics Perspective on American Drug History and Policy -- 1. Dating America's Response to Drugs: An Historical Overview -- 2. Indexing Drugs for More Effective Drug Policy -- Pt. II. General Semantics Approaches to Drug Legalization and the Use of Drugs in Literary Creativity -- 3. An "Extensional" Approach to Drug Legalization -- 4. The Quest for Instant Enlightenment: Drugs and Literary Creativity -- Pt. III. A General Semantics Analysis of Treatment and Prevention -- 5. A Multi-Valued Analysis of Drug Addiction and Treatment -- 6. For Effective Drug Prevention, Compare the Map to the Territory -- Pt. IV. General Semantics Applications in Drug Prevention -- 7. General Semantics in the Supervision and Staff Development of Drug Prevention Specialists -- 8. A General Semantics Approach to Reducing Student Alienation -- App. 1. Time-Binding 10,000 Years of Psychoactive Drug Use
App. 2. Et Cetera - A Resource and Referral Guide -- App. 3. A Select Annotated Bibliography of General Semantics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Drug abuse -- United States.
Drug abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
Semantics.
LC no. 2002022470
ISBN 027596129X alkaline paper