Drug Use in Metropolitan America by Robert M. Bray

By Robert M. Bray

This booklet describes, relates and integrates findings from a research of the Washington DC metropolitan quarter that checked out the character and quantity of drug use in one city environment. The examine process concerned focusing relatively on teams that have been characteristically underrepresented in loved ones populations. The publication serves as a methodological primer on find out how to adopt a examine similar to this. It areas those findings within the higher context of the nationwide drug abuse challenge, in addition to comparable social ills reminiscent of crime and homelessness. A concluding bankruptcy seems squarely at a few of the implications of the examine, pointing the best way for extra examine, yet specially for public coverage judgements concerning drug use.

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