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Social Sanctions and Rituals as a Basis for Drug Abuse Prevention
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Preliminary findings of an on-going study of "controlled" use of marihuana, psychedelics, and opiates point to the possibility of minimizing the social costs of illicit drug use via social control.Abstract:
(1975). Social Sanctions and Rituals as a Basis for Drug Abuse Prevention. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 165-182.read more
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Untreated opiate addicts. How do they differ from those seeking treatment
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Drifting, Controlling and Overcoming: Opiate Users Who Avoid Becoming Chronically Dependent:
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Testing a causal model of environmental influences on the early drug involvement of inner city junior high school youths.
TL;DR: The results show friends' use of alcohol and marijuana and participation in drug/street culture out-of-school activities have strong direct effects on personal drug involvement for the Black and Puerto Rican junior high school males and females who were studied.
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A Study of Social Regulatory Mechanisms in Controlled Illicit Drug Users
TL;DR: It is suggested that a system of social controls similar to that operating for alcohol use could be a more reasonable means of preventing compulsive use than the present prohibition of any and all illicit drug use.
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Outsiders; studies in the sociology of deviance
TL;DR: One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker's Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.
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