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Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction

TECHNOLOGIES FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PREVENTING SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION

US Government Office of Technology Assessment

October 18, 1994


Contents

1 Executive Summary

2 Introduction

Part I: Necessary Preconditions

3 Biology and Pharmacology

4 Availability

5 Substance Use and Transitions to Abuse and Addiction

Part II: Individual Factors

6 Individual Risk and Protective Factors

Part III: Activity Settings

7 Ethnographic Drug Studies

8 Community Activity Settings

9 Policy Options


APPENDICES

A Drug Control Policy in the United States: Historical Perspectives

B Federal Programs: Prevention and Causation

C Perspectives on Defining Substance Abuse

D List of Contracts

E List of Workshops and Participants

F Acknowledgments

References

The Report in PDF File Format

Full Report ~3999K
Front Matter ~117K
Table of Contents ~98K

Chapters
1: Executive Summary ~608K
2: Introduction ~400K
Part I: Necessary Preconditions ~87K
3: Biology and Pharmacology ~285K
4: Availability ~370K
5: Substance Use and Transitions to Abuse and Addiction ~240K
Part II: Individual Factors ~86K
6: Individual Risk and Protective Factors ~466K
Part III: Activity Settings ~86K
7: Ethnographic Drug Studies ~311K
8: Community Activity Settings ~579K
9: Policy Options ~155K

Appendixes
A: Drug Control Policy in the United States: Historical Perspectives ~125K
B: Federal Programs: Prevention and Causation ~145K
C: Perspectives on Defining Substance Abuse ~126K
D: List of Contracts ~92K
E: List of Workshops and Participants ~107K
F: Acknowledgments ~96K
G: References ~981K
Index ~294K



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