Doin' Drugs

Patterns of African American Addiction

By: William H. James

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Paperback | 1 January 1997

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By examining the historical and modern patterns of African American addiction, James and Johnson aim to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the reciprocal relationship between addiction and race. . . . This work offers a respectable primer on issues specific to African American drug use and also illustrates the problems inherent in minority drug treatment." --Choice

Throughout the African American community, individuals and organizations ranging from churches to schools to drug treatment centers are fighting the widespread use of crack cocaine. To put that fight in a larger cultural context, Doin' Drugs explores historical patterns of alcohol and drug use from pre-slavery Africa to present-day urban America.

William Henry James and Stephen Lloyd Johnson document the role of alcohol and other drugs in traditional African cultures, among African slaves before the American Civil War, and in contemporary African American society, which has experienced the epidemics of marijuana, heroin, crack cocaine, and gangs since the beginning of this century. The authors zero in on the interplay of addiction and race to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie addiction.

James and Johnson also highlight many culturally informed programs, particularly those sponsored by African American churches, that are successfully breaking the patterns of addiction. The authors hope that the information in this book will be used to train a new generation of counselors, ministers, social workers, nurses, and physicians to be better prepared to face the epidemic of drug addiction in African American communities.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Historical Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use
The Past Fifty Years
Alcohol
Cigarettes and Marijuana
Opiates
Cocaine
Gangs
The Church and Addiction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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