Epidemiology of Drug Abuse

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sloboda, Zili (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.

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Table of Contents:

• Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors
• Defining and Measuring Drug Abusing Behaviors
• Drug Abuse Heterogeneity and the Search for Subtypes
• Studying the Natural History of Drug Use
• Health, Social, and Psychological Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse
• Epidemiological Methods
• Use of Archival Data
• Sampling Issues in Drug Epidemiology
• Collecting Drug Use Data from Different Populations
• Indirect Methods to Estimate Prevalence
• Qualitative Methods in the Drug Abuse Field
• Ethical Considerations for Drug Abuse Epidemiologic Research
• Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiologic Studies
• A Common Language for a Common Problem: The Developing Role of Drug Epidemiology in a Global Context
• Longitudinal Studies of Drug Use and Abuse
• Drug Abuse and the Spread of Infection: HIV and AIDS as an Example
• Epidemiologic Information and Demand Reduction
• Implications of Epidemiologic Information for Effective Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies
• The Role of Treatment Data in Studying the Epidemiology of Substance Use and Abuse.