OER AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE

                 

                 OER for SOC 110

               Drug Use and Abuse

                                                        

 

 

NOTE: The below resources are a combination of openly licensed materials (OER), Internet Sites and library resources, requiring a login to access. In some rare instances, if a reading has a copyright), the resource will be used under the Fair Use Provision of the U.S. Copyright Act.

HISTORY OF DRUG USE

• "Why People Take Drugs" by Andrew Weil

• "Teen Drug Use in Iceland" by Emma Young, 2017 

• Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia 

• Anthropology and Addiction: An Historical Review 

• Perspectives on the History of Psychoactive Substance Use 

• Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs: Report By the Government of the United States of America 

HISTORY OF DRUG CONTROL

• A Century of Drug Control 
• History of Drug Control 
• History of Treatment 
• Swashbuckling Criminals and Border Bandits: Fighting Vice in North America’s Borderlands, 1945-1960

PHARMACOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON DRUG USE

• Drugs and Justice : Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View 

• The New Abuse-Deterrent Formulation Led Many Consumers to Substitute to an Inexpensive Alternative, Heroin 

SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON DRUG USE

• The Promise: On the Morality of the Marginal and the Illicit 

• Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families 

•  DrugFacts: High school and Youth Trends 

DRUGS IN THE MEDIA

• Podcast: On the Media: The American War on Drugs 

• Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media 

STUDYING DRUG USE

• The Users of Novel Psychoactive Substances: Online Survey About Their Characteristics, Attitudes and Motivations 

• DEA Book on "Drugs of Abuse" 

• Handbook of Forensic Toxicology for Medical Examiners. 

• The Science of Addiction: Genetics and the Brain 

EXPLAINING DRUG USE

• Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities and the American Future 

  • This book is not available as an ebook, but may be checked out of the John Jay Library: Stacks (HV5825 .C88 1994 ).

• Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2010–2014. National Vital Statistics Report. December 2016. 

• Tracing New Paths in the Anthropology of Addiction ​​​​

STIMULANTS

• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Chapter 3 

  • This book is copyrighted and not available as an ebook in the library. However, the book may be checked out of the library (Stacks HV5810 .B68 1996). The Introduction and Chapter 3: Crackhouse Management are relevant for this topic.

• Adderall Abuse on College Campuses: A Comprehensive Literature Review 

HEROIN AND NARCOTICS

• Drug Abuse. CQ Researcher.(2017, June 29). 

• Fatal Overdoses Involving Carfentanil: A Case Series 

LEGALIZATION

• Dealing More Effectively and Humanely with Illegal Drugs 

• Introduction to a Debate: “Marijuana: Legalize, Decriminalize, or Leave the Status Quo in Place?” 

• North Americans' Attitudes Toward Illegal Drugs 

NEW YORK SPECIFIC OPIOD RELATED

• Opioid-related Data in New York State (NY State Department of Health) 

• Opioid Addiction Treatment With Buprenorphine and Methadone. NYC Department of Health. 

• City of New York versus Purdue Pharma, Teva, Johnson & Johnson etc 

GOVERNMENT DRUG RESOURCES

• Drug Enforcement Administration 

• National Institute on Drug Abuse 

• Office of National Drug Control Policy 

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 

VIDEOS

• Drugs of abuse 

• Mechanism of Drug Addiction 

• Neural Basis of Drug Addiction