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The Drug Problem: A New View Using the General Semantics Approach
By Martin H. Levinson
220 pages
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- Praeger
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- Westport, CT
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- 2002
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Synopsis
This comprehensive volume offers a dynamic new approach to understanding and solving the drug problem. This text applies the techniques and formulations of general semantics to investigate and make recommendations about various aspects of drug abuse. General semantics, a process problem-solving approach based on the primacy of the scientific method and importance of language as a shaper of thoughts and perceptions, has a proven record of success in problem-solving across a wide variety of disciplines ...
This comprehensive volume offers a dynamic new approach to understanding and solving the drug problem. This text applies the techniques and formulations of general semantics to investigate and make recommendations about various aspects of drug abuse. General semantics, a process problem-solving approach based on the primacy of the scientific method and importance of language as a shaper of thoughts and perceptions, has a proven record of success in problem-solving across a wide variety of disciplines and fields.
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Table of contents
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- The Drug Problem i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Part I - A General Semantics Perspective on American Drug History and Policy 7
- Chapter 1 - Dating America's Response to Drugs: an Historical Overview 9
- Chapter 2 - Indexing Drugs for More Effective Drug Policy 35
- Part II - General Semantics Approaches to Drug Legalization and the Use of Drugs in Literary Creativity 63
- Chapter 3 - An [Extensional] Approach to Drug Legalization 65
- Chapter 4 - The Quest for Instant Enlightenment: Drugs and Literary Creativity 75
- Part III - A General Semantics Analysis of Treatment and Prevention 93
- Chapter 5 - A Multi-Valued Analysis of Drug Addiction and Treatment 95
- Chapter 6 - For Effective Drug Prevention, Compare the Map to the Territory 117
- Part IV - General Semantics Applications in Drug Prevention 137
- The Drug Problem i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction 1
- Part I - A General Semantics Perspective on American Drug History and Policy 7
- Chapter 1 - Dating America's Response to Drugs: an Historical Overview 9
- Chapter 2 - Indexing Drugs for More Effective Drug Policy 35
- Part II - General Semantics Approaches to Drug Legalization and the Use of Drugs in Literary Creativity 63
- Chapter 3 - An [Extensional] Approach to Drug Legalization 65
- Chapter 4 - The Quest for Instant Enlightenment: Drugs and Literary Creativity 75
- Part III - A General Semantics Analysis of Treatment and Prevention 93
- Chapter 5 - A Multi-Valued Analysis of Drug Addiction and Treatment 95
- Chapter 6 - For Effective Drug Prevention, Compare the Map to the Territory 117
- Part IV - General Semantics Applications in Drug Prevention 137
- Chapter 7 - General Semantics in the Supervision and Staff Development of Drug Prevention Specialists 139
- Chapter 8 - A General Semantics Approach to Reducing Student Alienation 151
- Appendixes 165
- Appendix 1 - Time-Binding 10,000 Years of Psychoactive Drug Use 167
- Appendix 2 - Et Cetera—a Resource and Referral Guide 189
- Appendix 3 - A Select Annotated Bibliography of General Semantics 193
- Index 195
- About the Author 207