Geography and Drug Addiction (eBook)

List of Tables.- List of Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction: Douglas Richardson.- PART I. INTEGRATING GEOGRAPHY IN DRUG ABUSE RESEACH: 1. Placing substance abuse: geographical perspectives on substance use and addiction: Sara McLafferty.- 2. Integrating geographic information system and social epidemiology in drug abuse research: Yonette Thomas, Douglas Richardson, and Ivan Cheung.- PART II. GEO-EPIDEMIOLOGY IN DRUG ABUSE RESEARCH: 3. Integrating GIS into the study of contextual factors affecting injection drug use along the Mexico/U.S. border: Kimberly Brouwer, et al.- 4. The spatial context of adolescent substance use: assessing the role of neighborhood alcohol availability and disadvantage: Karen Snedker, Jerald R. Herting, and Emily C. Walton.- 5. Migration patterns and substance use among young homeless travelers: Steve Lankenau, et al.- 6. Residential mobility and drug use among parolees in San Diego, California: implications for policy: Meagan Cahill and Nancy LaVigne.- 7. Social disorganization, alcohol and drug markets, and violence: a space-time model of community structure: Aniruddha Banerjee et al.- 8. Integrated assessment of addiction epidemiology in Hong Kong 1996 – 2005: Shui Shan Lee, Phoebe TT Pang.- 9. Residential segregation and the prevalence of injection drug use among black adult residents of U.S. metropolitan areas: Hannah Cooper et al.- 10. The relationship of ecological containment and heroin practices: Avelardo Valdez and Alice Cepeda.- 11. Comparing unintentional opiod poisoning mortality in metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, United States, 1999 – 2003: Nabarun Dasgupta, Michele Jonsson Funk, and John S Brownstein.- 12. Spatial patterns of clandestine methamphetamine labs in Colorado Springs, Colorado: Max Lu and Jessica Burnum.- 13. A therapeutic landscape? Contextualizing methamphetamine in North Dakota: Kevin Romig and Alex Feidler.- 14. Are spatialvariables important? The case of markets for multiple drugs in British Bengal: Siddharth Chandra and Aaron Swoboda.- PART III. GEOGRAPHY OF INJECTION DRUG USERS AND HIV: 15. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates and heroin trafficking: fearful symmetries: Chris Beyrer.- 16. Metropolitan area characteristics, injection drug use and HIV among injectors: Samuel Friedman et al.- 17. Factors influencing drug use and HIV risk in two Nicaraguan cities: Michele Shedlin et al.- 18. Drug Use and HIV/AIDS: risk environments in post-soviet Russia: Dominique Moran.- 19. Substance abuse and HIV in China: the impact of residence and residential mobility: Xiushi Yang.- PART IV. GEOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OF DRUG TREATMENT AND PREVENTION: 20. Placing the dynamics of syringe exchange programs in the United States: Barbara Tempalski.- 21. The effect of individual, program, and neighborhood variables on continuity of treatment among dually diagnosed individuals: Gerald Stahler et al.- 22. Exploring the reciprocal effects of substance abuse treatment provision and area substance abuse: Matthew Archibald.- 23. Using a GIS framework to assess hurricane recovery needs of substance abuse clients in Katrina- and Rita-affected areas: Traci Green and Cynthia Pope.- 24. Using GIS to identify drug markets and reduce drug-related violence: a data driven strategy to implement a focused deterrence model and understand the elements of drug markets: Eleazer Hunt et al.- V. EMERGING RESEARCH DIRECTIONS: 25. Modeling the spatial patterns of substance and drug abuse in the U.S.: Suchi Gopal, Matt Adams, and Mark Vanelli.- 26. Reconceptualizing Sociogeographical Context for the Study of Drug Use, Abuse and Addiction: Mei-Po Kwan et al.- 27. Spatial analytic approaches to explaining the trends and patterns in two decades of drug overdose deaths in New York City: Charlie DiMaggio et al