Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Society for the Study of Social Problems Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American PoliticsAuthor(s): Katherine Beckett

Agenda Setting

Society for the Study of Social Problems Setting the Public Agenda: "Street Crime" and Drug Use in American PoliticsAuthor(s): Katherine Beckett

From: Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

dragon.soc.qc.cuny.edu/Staff/levine/CRACK-IN-AMERICA-CH1.html

From: Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Video on TED.com

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., Times analysis shows - latimes.com

Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., Times analysis shows - latimes.com

Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Mexico wary as Calif. votes on legalizing marijuana

Mexico wary as Calif. votes on legalizing marijuana
Marijuana smuggling and sales represent a roughly $10 billion business for Mexico's drug mafias, which earn up to 60 percent of their profits from pot, according to U.S. estimates.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics | Video on TED.com

FORA.tv - Sudhir Venkatesh: Gang Leader For a Day

Family dinners work some kind of magic | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times

Family dinners work some kind of magic | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times
Researchers from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse found that teens who have family dinners fewer than three times a week -- compared with those who have family dinners five or more times a week -- were much more likely to use drugs and alcohol and have less academic success. Teens who say they have family dinners but that there are distractions at the table also have higher rates of substance abuse that teens who have frequent family dinners without interruptions.