NCJ Number
168435
Editor(s)
L A Henderson,
W J Glass
Date Published
1994
Length
165 pages
Annotation
This volume presents new approaches to understanding LSD and its consequences.
Abstract
The book incorporates data from multiple sources and different methods of data collection in order to understand who uses drugs, why and how they use them, and the consequences of drug use. It incorporates clinical, epidemiologic, and social science research, and presents different but related pictures of LSD and LSD users. To understand the place of LSD in today's society, the book offers perspectives from users, sellers, a law enforcement officer, and health researchers. The book reviews and discusses: an ethnographic study of adolescent LSD users and their parents; a comprehensive review of the medical, drug abuse/addiction, and social science literature; LSD's unique position among abused drugs; its history; physiologic, and psychologic effects; its therapeutic use; its marketing and distribution; and relationship to the law. The book also investigates the primary concerns of parents, teachers and some users; the extent of LSD use; the core group of users; and the patterns of use over time. Notes, figures, tables, index