TY - BOOK AU - Sloboda,Zili ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Epidemiology of Drug Abuse SN - 9780387244167 U1 - 613 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - MEDICINE KW - EPIDEMIOLOGY KW - MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH KW - PUBLIC HEALTH/GESUNDHEITSWESEN N1 - Natural History of Drug Abusing Behaviors -- Defining and Measuring Drug Abusing Behaviors -- Drug Abuse Heterogeneity and the Search for Subtypes -- Studying the Natural History of Drug Use -- Health, Social, and Psychological Consequences of Drug Use and Abuse -- Epidemiological Methods -- Use of Archival Data -- Sampling Issues in Drug Epidemiology -- Collecting Drug Use Data from Different Populations -- Indirect Methods to Estimate Prevalence -- Qualitative Methods in the Drug Abuse Field -- Ethical Considerations for Drug Abuse Epidemiologic Research -- Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiologic Studies -- A Common Language for a Common Problem: The Developing Role of Drug Epidemiology in a Global Context -- Longitudinal Studies of Drug Use and Abuse -- Drug Abuse and the Spread of Infection: HIV and AIDS as an Example -- Epidemiologic Information and Demand Reduction -- Implications of Epidemiologic Information for Effective Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies -- The Role of Treatment Data in Studying the Epidemiology of Substance Use and Abuse N2 - < UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b105372 ER -