Emergent Issues in the Field of Drug Abuse (Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 7)

The field of drug abuse research is undergoing rapid change. This book reflects this change in addressing both current "cutting edge" issues in the field and suggests directions in which the field should go. Chapters are contributed by some of the leading drug abuse researchers in the nation. The book is divided into six parts. Part 1 discusses initiation and progression to drug use and its health consequences. It contains three papers which review adolescent drug use epidemiology and its implications for prevention research and adult health status as a consequence of adolescent drug use. Part 2 deals with current treatment issues and contains three chapters on client motivation/readiness as a factor in drug treatment, the impact of centralized intake on access to treatment and client satisfaction, and the effects of managed care on drug users. Part 3 also consists of three chapters on drug user belief and identity systems. They examine moral belief and drug problem recognition, the cultural aspects of recovery among drug dependent Puerto Rican mothers and models of adaptation to termination of supplemental security insurance for drug abusers. Part 4 discusses HIV prevention among drug abusers and includes a study of the impact of NIDA Cooperative Agreement programs on HIV risk behaviors, the influence of settings, norms and social networks on AIDS prevention efforts and the role of employment cycles and incentives in recruiting drug users into HIV studies. Part 5 focuses on the mechanisms by which drug and alcohol use come to be defined as social problems. One chapter discusses community organization and drug prevention readiness while the other chapter analyzes the transformation that private alcohol treatment programs have undergone over the past several decades. Part 6 closes the volume by discussing the critical need for the research field to translate its findings from the researcher to the life practitioner. Front Matter ......Page 1 1. Future Directions in Research, Intervention, and Prevention in the Field of Drug Abuse (Richard C. Stephens, et al.) ......Page 2 2. Epidemiology and Prevention Research Among U.S. Children and Adolescents (Zili Sloboda) ......Page 18 3. Adolescent Substance Use and Adult Health Status (Ryan E. Spohn and Howard B. Kaplan )......Page 43 4. Depression, Drug Use, and Health Services Need, Utilization, and Cost (Duane C. McBride, et al.) ......Page 64 5. The Motivation-Readiness Factor in Drug Treatment (George De Leon, et al.) ......Page 97 6. The Impact of Centralized Intake on Access to Treatment and Satisfaction with Intake Procedures (Christy K. Scott, et al.) ......Page 124 7. Health Services for Chronic Drug Users in an Era of Managed Care (Clyde B. McCoy, et al.)......Page 144 8. Moral Belief and Drug Problem Recognition in Three Ethnic Groups (Douglas Longshore, and Kathy Sanders-Phillips)......Page 168 9. The Trajectory of Recovery Among Drug-Dependent Puerto Rican Mothers (Timothy Black and Monica Hardesty)......Page 183 10. Models of Adaptation to Termination of the SSI/SSDI Addcition Disability (Paul J. Goldstein, et al.) ......Page 204 Part V. Defining Drug Use as Social Problem......Page 228 12. New Directions in HIV Prevention Among Drug Users (Carl A. Latkin and Amy R. Knowlton) ......Page 247 13. The Role of Employment Cycles and Incentives in the Recruitment of Drug Users (Grace L. Reynolds, et al.) ......Page 274 Part VI. Implementing Sociological Research Findings in Community Practice......Page 286 15. The Transformation of Private Alcohol Problem Treatment (Paul M. Roman, et al.) ......Page 303 16. From Research to Practice (Barry S. Brown) ......Page 325 Biographical Sketches ......Page 346 This is the eighth volume in a series dedicated to publishing current research and conceptual papers in the broad-ranging area of the sociology of health