Doin' drugs : patterns of African American addiction / William H. James and Stephen L. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, William H. (William Henry), 1940- author.

Contributor:

Johnson, Stephen L. (Stephen Lloyd), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Drug use.

African Americans.

African Americans--Alcohol use.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States.

Drug addicts.

Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--United States.

Alcoholics.

Drug abuse--Treatment--United States.

Drug abuse.

Alcoholism--Treatment--United States.

Alcoholism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 173 p. )

Edition:

1st University of Texas Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1996.

Summary:

Throughout the African American community, individuals and organizations ranging from churches to schools to drug treatment centers are fighting the widespread use of crack cocaine. To put that fight in a larger cultural context, Doin' Drugs explores historical patterns of alcohol and drug use from pre-slavery Africa to present-day urban America. William Henry James and Stephen Lloyd Johnson document the role of alcohol and other drugs in traditional African cultures, among African slaves before the American Civil War, and in contemporary African American society, which has experienced the epidemics of marijuana, heroin, crack cocaine, and gangs since the beginning of this century. The authors zero in on the interplay of addiction and race to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie addiction. James and Johnson also highlight many culturally informed programs, particularly those sponsored by African American churches, that are successfully breaking the patterns of addiction. The authors hope that the information in this book will be used to train a new generation of counselors, ministers, social workers, nurses, and physicians to be better prepared to face the epidemic of drug addiction in African American communities.

Contents:

Historical patterns of alcohol and drug use

The past fifty years

Alcohol

Cigarettes and marijuana

Opiates

Cocaine

Gangs

The church and addiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-79962-4

OCLC:

1286806331