The American Drug Scene: Readings in a Global Context

Now in its seventh edition, The American Drug Scene, edited by James A. Inciardi and Karen McElrath, is a collection of contemporary and classic articles on the changing patterns, problems, perspectives, and policies of legal and illicit drug use. Offering a unique focus on the social contexts in which drug usage, drug-related problems, and drug policies occur, it presents theoretical and descriptive material drawn from both ethnographic and quantitative sources.

• Drugs in American Society
• The Sociology of American Drug Use
• The Natural Mind: A Revolutionary Approach to the Drug Problem
• Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction
• Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
• Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory: Text and Readings
• Making Sense of the Social World: Methods of Investigation
• Drug Use and Abuse
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality