Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco : making the science and policy connections / edited by Griffith Edwards, John Strang, and Jerome H. Jaffe.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Substance misuse and the uses of science / Griffith Edwards -- Private behaviour and public policy / Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. -- Drugs, science, and policy : a view from the USA / Robin Room -- Discussion : Games policy makers play / chaired by Robin Murray -- Science policy from a cancer research setting / Walter Bodmer -- Beyond the invisible college : a science policy analysis of alcohol and drug research / Thomas F. Babor -- Discussion : The optimum conditions for making science happen / chaired by Boris Tabakoff -- Tobacco-related disease / Robert West -- Alcohol prevention / Reginald G. Smart -- Licit psychotropic drugs / Malcolm Lader -- The US anti-drug prevention strategy : science and policy connections / Herbert D. Kleber -- Commonalities and diversities in the science and policy questions across different substances / Marcus Grant.

Discussion : What future for prevention? / chaired by Hamid Ghodse -- The impact of AIDS on the research agenda / Gerry V. Stimson and John Strang -- Cocaine challenges to research / Charles R. Schuster and Steven W. Gust -- Research, policy, and the problems set by rapid social, economic, and political change / Robin Room -- Action at the local level : aids to strategic thinking / David Robinson -- The nature of the target disorder : an historical perspective / Virginia Berridge -- Prospects, politics, and paradox : pharmacological research and its relevance to policy development / Roger E. Meyer -- Psychological treatments : the research and policy connections / Ray Hodgson -- Implications of recent research on psychotherapy for drug abuse / Kathleen M. Carroll and Bruce J. Rounsaville.

Appropriate expectations for substance abuse treatments : can they be met? / A. Thomas McLellan ... [et al.] -- Short-term views will not do for long-term problems / Anders Romelsjö -- Interpretation of addiction treatment outcome research : skill or racket? / D. Colin Drummond -- Limits to generalizability in treatment research / Marc Alan Schuckit -- Discussion : Science and treatment : what message for the policy maker? / chaired by Robert Kendell and Mark Taylor -- The great legalization debates / Harold Kalant -- The rise and fall of epidemics : learning from history / David F. Musto -- Behavioural pharmacology of addictive drugs : cost, availability, and individual differences / Ian Stolerman -- Projections of the health consequences of illicit drug use : what contribution to the legalization debate? / John Strang and Graham Medley.

Estimating the social and economic costs and benefits of drug policies / Dean R. Gerstein -- Psychosocial issues in drug policies : implications for the legalization debate / Richard Jessor -- Discussion : Research and policy connections beyond the year 2000 / chaired by Harold Kalant -- Looking forward / Jerome H. Jaffe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.