The drug problem : a new view using the general semantics approach / Martin H. Levinson ; foreword by Paul Dennithorne Johnston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Martin H., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--United States.

Drug abuse.

United States.

Drug abuse--United States--Prevention.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

x, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Brings the advantages of general semantics, a proven process problem-solving approach, to the drug abuse problem.

Contents:

Part I A General Semantics Perspective on American Drug History and Policy

1. Dating America's Response to Drugs: An Historical Overview 9

2. Indexing Drugs for More Effective Drug Policy 35

Part II General Semantics Approaches to Drug Legalization and the Use of Drugs in Literary Creativity

3. An "Extensional" Approach to Drug Legalization 65

4. The Quest for Instant Enlightenment: Drugs and Literary Creativity 75

Part III A General Semantics Analysis of Treatment and Prevention

5. A Multi-Valued Analysis of Drug Addiction and Treatment 95

6. For Effective Drug Prevention, Compare the Map to the Territory 117

Part IV General Semantics Applications in Drug Prevention

7. General Semantics in the Supervision and Staff Development of Drug Prevention Specialists 139

8. A General Semantics Approach to Reducing Student Alienation 151

Appendix 1 Time-Binding 10,000 Years of Psychoactive Drug Use 167

Appendix 2 Et Cetera

A Resource and Referral Guide 189

Appendix 3 A Select Annotated Bibliography of General Semantics 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

027596129X

OCLC:

49225807