Drugs, Society, and Behavior

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Required books

Kramer, P. D. (1993). Listening to Prozac. Viking: New York.

DeGrandpre, R. (1999). Ritalin Nation. W.W. Norton: New York.

Peele, S. (1985; 1998). The meaning of addiction. Jossey Bass: San Francisco, CA.

 

References

Breggin, P. R. (1997). Psychotherapy in emotional crises without resort to psychiatric medications. The Humanistic Psychologist, 25, 2-14.

Courtwright, D. T. (1993, February-March). Should we legalize drugs: History answers. American Heritage, 44, 43-48.

Drug Enforcement Administration. (n.d.). Talking points for challenging the medical use of marijuana argument. Retrieved August 20, 2000, from http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/sayit/myths.htm

Eberstadt, M. (1999, April-May). Why Ritalin rules. Policy Review.

Grinspoon, L. (2000). Whither medical marijuana? Contemporary drug problems, 27, 3-15

Leshner, A. I. (1997, October 3). Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters. Science, 278, 45-47.

Marshall, D. (1999). Congressional testimony: “The drug legalization movement in America.” U.S House of Representatives. Retrieved on August 19, 2003 from LexisNexis.

McCardell, J. M. (2004). What your college president didn’t tell you. The New York Times, September 13.

McDonough, J. R. (2000, April). Marijuana on the ballot. Policy Review, 51.

Miron, J. A. (2001), The economics of drug prohibition and drug legalization. Social Research, 68, 835-855.

Satel, S. L. (1999, winter). The fallacies of no-fault addiction. Public Interest, 134, 52.

Stutafford, A. (2001). De-demonizing rum. National review, 53(12), June 25.

Sullum, J. (1994, July). Mind alteration: drug policy scholar Ethan Nadelman on turning people against drug prohibition. Reason, 37-43.

Taylor, E. (1999). Development of clinical services for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [Electronic version]. Archives of General Psychiatry, 56, 1097.

Vastag, B. (2001, March 7). Talking with Alan I. Leshner, PhD, National Institute on Drug Abuse director. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, 1141.

Wagenaar, A. C., & Toomey, T. L. (2002). Effects of minimum drinking age laws: review and analyses of the literature from 1960-2000. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 14, 206-225.

Wechsler, H., Lee, J. E., Nelson, T. F., & Kuo, M. (2002). Underage college student’s drinking behavior, access to alcohol, and the influence of deterrence policies: findings from the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. Journal of American College Health, 50(5)