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Developmental Disabilities --- Pregnancy Complications --- Substance-Related Disorders --- Street Drugs --- etiology --- complications --- adverse effects

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Drugs of abuse --- Narcotic laws --- Narcotics --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Street drugs --- Psychotropic drugs --- Law and legislation --- Criminal provisions

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Drugs of abuse --- Drug control --- Drogues --- Lutte antidrogue --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- -343 --- -Drugs of abuse --- 343 --- Street drugs --- Drugs --- Psychotropic drugs

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As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as the drive for Chinese Exclusion gathered steam, Canadians blamed the Chinese for the growing use of opium and other drugs, and parliamentarians passed extremely harsh drug laws to counter this use. These laws remained in place until the 1960s.In Jailed for Possession, Catherine Carstairs examines the impact of these drug laws on users' health, work lives, and relationships. In the middle of the century, drug users regularly went to jail for up to two years for possession of even the smallest amount of opium, morphine, heroin, or cocaine, often spending more time incarcerated than on the street. As enforcement increased and drugs became harder to obtain, drug use became an increasingly central preoccupation, making it almost impossible for users to hold down steady jobs, support families, or maintain solid relationships.Jailed for Possession is the first social history of drug use in Canada and provides a careful examination of drug users and their regulators including doctors, social workers, and police officers.

Drug abuse --- Drugs of abuse --- Street drugs --- Drugs --- Psychotropic drugs --- Drug use --- Substance abuse --- Government policy --- History --- Treatment --- Law and legislation --- Criminal provisions --- Social aspects

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Drug testing is now an established science that employs many new technologies and has become a multimillion dollar business directly and indirectly touching the lives of many people. In Drugs of Abuse: Body Fluid Testing, leading authorities review the science of drug testing in all its aspects, placing emphasis on technologies that use body fluids other than urine for determining the presence of drugs of abuse. The authors discuss the various body fluid specimens suitable for testing for illicit drugs-particularly saliva, sweat, and hair-describe the structural and manufacturing aspects of on-site testing devices based on lateral flow immunoassay, and detail the pitfalls sometimes encountered when using these specimens. They also discuss in detail the problem of sample adulteration and its detection. Since oral fluid has the best potential of succeeding urine as the next matrix of choice for drug detection, four popular saliva testing devices are examined: Intercept®, the Drager Drug Test®, Oratect®, and Drugwipe. Political, social, and legal issues are also considered in articles on privacy, the use of drug testing in courts, and the problem of sample adulteration. An international perspective is provided by a description of a large-scale roadside drug-testing program (ROSITA) in the European Union. Comprehensive and authoritative, Drugs of Abuse: Body Fluid Testing offers not only an understanding of the theoretical principles behind these techniques, but also an up-to-date account of both the recent advances in drug testing techniques and today's optimal testing practices.

Drugs of abuse --- Forensic pharmacology. --- Body fluids --- Analysis. --- Clinical chemistry --- Medicolegal pharmacology --- Medical jurisprudence --- Pharmacology --- Street drugs --- Drugs --- Psychotropic drugs --- Toxicology. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Chemicals --- Medicine --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Toxicology --- Pharmacology. --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Medical sciences --- Chemotherapy --- Pharmacy --- Physiological effect