Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
% Grade
10%
Due Date
1. 2/10
2. 2/24
3. 3/28
4. 4/20
5. 5/2
6. 5/18
2/29
10%
10%
10%
30%
3/20
4/20
4/20
During Final
30%
Course Schedule:
Date
2/1
Topic
Sources of Information about
drugs in society
2/3
2/8
2/10
2/17
2/22
2/24
2/29
3/2
3/7
3/9
3/14
3/16
3/21
3/28
3/30
4/4
4/6
4/11
4/13
4/18
4/20
5/2
5/4
5/9
5/11
5/16
5/18
Final
TBA
Readings
1. www.monitoringthefuture.org
2. https://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/default.asp
3. http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm
Weil, Why people take drugs
Gahlinger, Quickest route to the brain
Gahlinger, A century of increasing drug control
Barr, Drink
Freud, ber coca
Schultes, Nectar of the gods
Anslinger, Marihuana: Assassin of youth
Burroughs, Junky
Preble & Casey, Taking care of business
Wendel & Curtis, The heraldry of heroin
Bearak: A Room for Heroin and HIV
Bearak: Battle Against AIDS Falls Behind
Bearak: Life, Death, Birth and Love
Bearak: Road to Detox: Do Not Enter
Curtis, Crack, cocaine and heroin
Agar, The story of crack
Goldstein: Self-Reports of HIV Risk Behavior by Injecting Drug
Users
Maher and Curtis, In Search of the Female Gangsta
McCoy: White Chicks on Dope
Leary, Trip 15: Your faith will perform miracles
Doblin, Pahnkes Good Friday Experiment
http://www.amazon.com/Ganja-Man-strange-account-Jamaicasebook/dp/B00JVS9P4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421765738&sr=81&keywords=the+ganja+man
Discuss and describe the methods and techniques that McDonough used
to collect data for the book.
Discuss and describe the big crime that McDonough felt led to all the
little crimes he describes in the book?
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