Drug Danger and Social Behaviour : New Challenges

Beschreibung

Drug addiction compulsive craving for drugs is an oldest phenomena because the societies in all parts of the world have been using phychoactive drugs drawn from more than 4000 plants to cure various ailments to enjoy pleasurable sensation and to alter mood when used otherwise Hence these drugs have always been misused to create euphoria and never have posed a serious threat to the society But developments in the last quarter of the twentieth century have given new dimensions of an epidemic because through technological progress an increasing number of alkaloids and their derivatives like heroin smack crack and many other deadly drugs have captured the minds of youthsRecent studies and investigations have showed some disturbing signs indicating deterioration in the drug-abuse scene in India and de-addiction clinics at various hospitals in the country speak volumes of the enormity of the problem Addiction of heroin and other similar drugs to the traditional alcohol tobacco and cannabis has made the situation quite grave and alarming It is therefore in the fitness of things that indepth studies be made in the use of cannabis alcohol tobacco and other drugs to find out their acceptance or otherwise in the Indian society and their impactThe present book is an attempt in this direction which primarily intends to communicate the gravity of the problem in India Exhaustive exploratory work has been done by the author of this book to highlight the actual position of drug-abuse scene in India with illustrations The work not only discusses the present problem but also traces the history of the addiction to various objects and peoples attitude towards them An interesting part of the work is that where  the author  shows how smoking of tobacco and use of cannabis have become part of religious or social customs of various people of the world The social aspect of drug abuse has been fully dealt with in the work 318 pp.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Drug Danger and Social Behaviour : New Challenges

Verlag

Sharada Pub

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

8185320004

ISBN-13

9788185320007

Einband

Hardcover

Zustand

New