PART ONE: TYPES OF DRUGS AND PATTERNS OF USE
What Is a Drug/Medicine?
Prevalence and Trends in Illicit Drug Use
Why Do People Take Drugs?
Addiction
Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco
Polydrug Use/Polysubstance Use
Common Illicit Drugs
Typologies of Drug Use: Use-Misuse-Abuse and Problematic-Recreational Use
Binge-Drinking
Raves and Circuit Parties
Dance Drugs/Club Drugs
Cross-cultural and Traditional Drug Use
Gender, Ethnicity and Social Class
Normalisation
PART TWO: DRUG EFFECTS
Drug Effects: Drug, Set and Setting
Medical Marijuana and Other Therapeutic Uses of Illicit Drugs
Prescribed and Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drugs
Novel Psychoactive Substances
The Gateway Hypothesis/Stepping Stone Theory
Drug-related Violence
Drugs and Crime
Drug Risks and Health Harms
Injecting Drug Use
HIV/AIDS and Other Blood-borne Viruses
PART THREE: DRUG POLICY, TREATMENT AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE DRUG PROBLEM
Drug Treatment and Quasi-compulsory Treatment (QCT)
Harm Reduction
Substitute Prescribing
The New Recovery Approach
Prevention: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
International Drug Control History/Prohibition
Drugs in Sport
Drug Scares and Moral Panics
Drug Dealers
Drug Markets: Difference and Diversity
Drug Trafficking
Crop Eradication, Crop Substitution and Legal Cultivation
War on Drugs
Drug Testing in Schools and Workplaces
Drug Courts
Decriminalisation, Legalisation and Legal Regulation
Liberalisation

Professor Ross Coomber is teaches Criminology at Griffith University, Australia. 

A must for anyone working with questions of drug use; from students across the social sciences to practitioners such as nurses, health workers and social workers. This is not a medical text but rather a critical account of psychoactive drugs in our society that enables the reader to think about drugs beyond cultural myths and presuppositions.