substance abuse

This book discusses controversial issues on health topics of current concern, such as AIDS, abortion, environmental health, and drug use and abuse.

Discusses the phenomenon of compulsive dependence on pleasure-giving substances such as drugs, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, and food, as well as causes of, treatments for, and societal attitudes toward such addiction.

Explores the history of man's use of drugs that alter consciousness.

An easy-to-read guide to psychoactive drugs and how they change the way we feel, think, and act.

Outlines the medicinal and recreational use of various drugs including narcotics, amphetamines, tobacco, alcohol, and over-the-counter drugs such as aspirin and cough syrups.

Discusses the effects of tobaccok alcohol, and drugs, and social aspects such as peer pressure to abuse these substances.

In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.

In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicide.

Provides information on the physiological effects of drug use on the main systems of the body, including the nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems.