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Chemical dependency : opposing viewpoints / Laura K. Egendorf, book editor.

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San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2003.

Drug abuse -- United States.

073771221X (pbk. : alk. paper) :

0737712228 (lib. : alk. paper)

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Teen drug abuse is a serious problem / Barry McCaffrey -- Teen drug abuse has been exaggerated / Mike Males -- Smoking causes significant health problems / Alicia M. Lukachko and Elizabeth M. Whelan -- Smoking-related health problems have been exaggerated / Robert A. Levy, interviewed by Stephen Goode -- Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem / Michelle Meadows -- The media have exaggerated the prescription drug abuse crisis / Tom Shales -- Addiction is a brain disease / Alan Leshner -- Addiction is not a brain disease / Sally Satel -- Some chemical dependency is caused by genetic factors / Ernest P. Nobel -- A variety of factors causes adolescent drug abuse / Susan M. Gordon -- Movies present mixed messages about substance abuse / Office of National Drug Control Policy and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -- Needle-exchange programs can reduce the transmission of AIDS / Peter Beilenson, interviewed by Will Van Sant -- Needle-exchange programs do not reduce the transmission of AIDS / Joe Loconte -- Drug tests of pregnant women are necessary / Robert H. Hood -- Drug tests of pregnant women are discriminatory / Mary Faith Marshall -- Alcoholics Anonymous can reduce the problems caused by drinking / Anonymous -- Harm-reduction approaches can reduce the problems caused by drinking / Marcus Grant and Eric Single -- Methadone is the most effective treatment for heroin addiction / Stephen Chapman -- The war on drugs can succeed / William J. Bennett -- The war on drugs has failed / Timothy Lynch -- Drug use should be decriminalized / Joseph D. McNamara -- Drug use should not be decriminalized / Barry McCaffrey -- Mandatory minimum sentences are essential to the war on drugs / David Risley -- Mandatory minimum sentences are ineffective and unfair / Dirk Chase Eldredge -- Drug courts are a promising solution to the drug problem / Richard S. Gebelein -- Drug courts have not reduced the drug problem / Melissa Hostetler.

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