Chapters By Topical Area

Browse chapters by topical area using the links below. Have any questions? DPF Editor Doug McVay is available to help. Use this link to email Doug your questions. Criminal Legal System / Supply Reduction: Prevention & Treatment / Demand Reduction: Public Health/Harm Reduction: Special Populations: Special Topics: Substances: International/non-US: Criminal Legal System / Supply Reduction:

• Prisons
  • Overview
  • Prisons and Drugs
  • Race and Prison
  • Mandatory Minimum Sentences
• Crime & Law Enforcement
  • Overview
  • Militarization of Law Enforcement
  • Corruption
• Drug Courts and Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration
• Civil & Human Rights
• Drugged Driving / DUID
• Interdiction

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Prevention & Treatment / Demand Reduction:

• Treatment
  • Overview
  • Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Social Reintegration
  • Methadone and Buprenorphine
  • Heroin Treatment
  • Drug Courts
• Prevention
  • Overview
  • Young People and Drugs
  • Families

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Public Health/Harm Reduction:

• Environment
• Injection Drug Use:
  • Drug Checking for Contaminants
  • Hepatitis C
  • HIV/AIDS:
    • Overview
    • Race & HIV
  • Syringe Exchange
  • Supervised Consumption Facilities
• Overdose
  • Naloxone / Opiate Overdose Reversal
• Treatment:
  • Overview
  • Drug Courts/Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration
  • Heroin Treatment
  • Methadone and Buprenorphine

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Special Populations:

• Adolescents
  • Young People and Drugs
  • Gateway Theory
  • Families
  • Drug Use Prevalence and Trends
  • Prevention & Education
• Women
  • Overview
  • Pregnancy
  • Families
• Race/Ethnicity
  • Race & Prisons
  • Race & HIV
  • Drug Use Prevalence

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Special Topics:

• Addiction & Substance Use Disorders
  • Overview
  • Gateway Theory
  • Prevalence of Drug Use
  • Treatment
    • Overview
    • Heroin-Assisted Treatment
    • Methadone & Opioid Substitution Treatment
• Adolescents
  • Overview
  • Drug Use Estimates
  • Families & Students
  • Gateway Theory
  • Prevention & Education
  • School & Student Drug Testing
• Drug Policies & Policy Reform
• Drug Testing
  • Overview
  • School & Student Drug Testing
  • Workplace & Employee Drug Testing
• Environment
• Hemp
• Medical Marijuana
• Race/Ethnicity
  • Prevalence of Drug Use
  • Race & HIV
  • Race & Prison
• Women
  • Overview
  • Families
  • Pregnancy

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Substances:

• Alcohol
• Cocaine & Crack
• Entheogens
  • Overview
  • Ayahuasca
  • LSD
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin)
  • Peyote & Mescaline
  • Salvia Divinorum
• Ecstasy/MDMA
• Fentanyl
• Heroin
• Ibogaine
• Marijuana
  • Overview
  • Hemp
  • Medical Marijuana
• Methadone
• Methamphetamines
• Naloxone
• New Psychoactive Substances
  • Overview
  • Ketamine
  • Khat
  • Kratom
  • Krokodil
  • Mephedrone & Synthetic Cathinones
  • Phenethylamines
  • Piperazines
  • Salvia Divinorum
  • Synthetic Cannabinoids
  • Xylazine
• Prescription Opiate Painkillers
  • Pain Management
  • Prescription Drug Diversion
• Tobacco & Nicotine
• Other Related:
  • Addictive Properties
  • Causes of Death
  • Drug Use Prevalence Estimates
  • Overdose

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International/non-US: Russia, Canada, European Union, Sweden, the Netherlands, Mexico, etc.

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Page last updated May 9, 2023 by Doug McVay, Editor.