Epidemiology of Drug Abuse

Contents......Page 8
A. Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors......Page 10
1. Defining and Measuring Drug Abusing Behaviors......Page 11
2. Drug Abuse Heterogeneity and the Search for Subtypes......Page 23
3. Studying the Natural History of Drug Use......Page 36
4. Health, Social and Psychological Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse......Page 51
B. Epidemiological Methods......Page 66
5. Use of Archival Data......Page 67
6. Sampling Issues in Drug Epidemiology......Page 83
7. Collecting Drug Use Data from Different Populations......Page 103
8. Indirect Methods to Estimate Prevalence......Page 116
9. Qualitative Methods in the Drug Abuse Field......Page 135
10. Ethical Considerations for Drug Abuse Epidemiologic Research......Page 147
C. Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiologic Studies......Page 160
11. A Common Language for a Common Problem: The Developing Role of Drug Epidemiology in a Global Context......Page 161
12. Longitudinal Studies of Drug Use and Abuse......Page 177
13. Drug Abuse and the Spread of Infection: HIV and AIDS as an Example......Page 193
D. Epidemiologic Information and Demand Reduction......Page 209
14. Implications of Epidemiologic Information for Effective Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies......Page 210
15. The Role of Treatment Data in Studying the Epidemiology of Substance Use and Abuse......Page 223
C......Page 232
D......Page 233
H......Page 234
P......Page 235
T......Page 236
Z......Page 237