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drugs of varying sorts, whether legal or illegal. The studies in question are either quantitative, qualitative, or a mixture of both. Of course, quantitative refers to the use of numbers and statistics to draw conclusions. Qualitative studies make use of feelings, thoughts and summaries. Indeed, this is less academic and objective in nature but it can explain the "why" of things rather than just the "what." Of course, many other studies are a mixture of the two. This annotated bibliography has two of each of the different types listed above and these were chosen to show that the types of studies relating to drugs come in all three of the major forms.
Chandler, R. K., Finger, M. S., Farabee, D., Schwartz, R. P., Condon, T., Dunlap, L. J. & Lee, J.
(2016). The SOMATICS collaborative: Introduction to a National Institute on Drug
Abuse cooperative study of pharmacotherapy for opioid treatment in criminal justice
settings. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 48166-172. doi:10.1016/j.cct.2016.05.003
A qualitative study that looks at drug abuse interventions that involve the criminal justice system and drug therapy from legal drugs. This study would be useful in how the criminal justice system can use legal drugs to combat the use of illegal ones. This would be a way to get people off of heroin, methamphetamine and so forth.
Chen, L., & Bonson, K. R. (2013). An Equivalence Test for the Comparison Between a Test
Drug and Placebo in Human Abuse Potential Studies. Journal of Biopharmaceutical
Statistics, 23(2), 294-306. doi:10.1080/10543406.2011.616972
Quantitative study that looks at placebo vs. real drug cases and how often the former can pollute the perceived efficacy of the latter. This matters because there are some drugs and...
(2016). "I Learned it by Watching YOU!" The Partnership for a Drug-Free
America and the Attack on "Responsible Use" Education in the 1980s. Journal Of Social
History, 49(3), 710. doi:10.1093/jsh/shv062
Qualitative study that looks at how drug use starts wholly or partially due to new users seeing the use of the drug by others. In other words, it looks at environment and peer pressure as it relates to people starting to use drugs. This could be used to impress upon others that drug use is often about being exposed to it even if they are otherwise told it is wrong.
Nilsson, A., Estrada, F., & Backman, O. (2014). Offending, drug abuse and life chances -- a longitudinal study of a Stockholm birth cohort. Journal of Scandinavian Studies In
Criminology & Crime Prevention, 15(2), 128-142.
This is a blended study over time that uses both qualitative and quantitative data. It looks at what effects and reactions that drug abuse and criminal offending have on people over time. This can be applied towards trying to reform people that are hooked on drugs and that are in danger of dying or leading lives of destitution.
Rkieh, N., Cloke, J., Gallagher, N., Winters, B., & Leri, F. (2014). Drugs of abuse as memory
modulators: a study of cocaine in rats. Psychopharmacology, 231(11), 2339-2348.
This is a quantitative only study that looks at the effect of cocaine on rats when it comes to memory. Since the animal in question is a rat, there is not really a way to make the study qualitative…
Drug Abuse Drug and substance abuse is one of the most serious dilemmas in the world today. One aspect of the issue is the growing number of teenage drug users and the increasing incidents of prescription drug abuse. According to the statistics of the National Institute on Drug Abuse prescription drugs misuse is far greater than the abuse of narcotics. Among teenagers alone, accepted cases of drug use increased from 27
In jails, not one of the violent criminals was under the influence of heroin at the time their crime was committed. Twenty-one percent of state inmates incarcerated for violent crime were under the influence of alcohol alone at the time they committed their crime. The number of those under the influence of marijuana alone was too small to be recorded statistically. (National 1998) These facts indicate that it is
In most cases, recreational drug use is seen as a victimless crime and a harmless activity. This attitude changes in the workplace if the drug use impairs performance to the detriment of other workers or if the work involves public safety, in which case tolerance for drug use drops significantly. Another reason why tolerance for some drug use is so high is because the attitude is a reaction to the
While previous studies have indicated that parental use of prescription drugs facilitates addiction through availability, it would also be valuable to see if parental use of such drugs normalizes seeking pharmaceutical solution to problems on a psychological level. This could be determined through an attitudinal questionnaire following the fill-in-the-blank yes/no demographic questionnaire in the survey. The attitudinal questionnaire can prompt agreement to disagreement with statements on a 1-5 scale such
Drug Use and Abuse Drug abuse Caetano (1997, 58) in his studies describe drug abuse as the poor pattern of substance or drug consumption that results to harm on one's health and when you think about the word drugs, what comes to mind? It's in our human nature to instantly think about someone using crack or codeine. So therefore; we just stereo-typed someone we knew nothing about, it's what makes us humans.
Drug Music is an art form that addresses many social issues, even in popular music otherwise designed for entertainment. I am interested in this topic because drug use is one of those many different issues. Most forms of music will address drug use at some point, and it is important to consider not only how music addresses drugs but how the way in which it has done so has changed, if