Substance Use and Abuse: Treatment and Legal Responses

Catalog description

This course addresses substance use and abuse from a supply and demand perspective. The course reviews major classes of abused substances and their psychoactive and addictive properties. Information on illicit production and distribution of abused substances is examined, and current laws regulating substance use are reviewed. Connections between substance use and crime are explored, and evidence-based responses to substance abuse from both the legal and mental health systems are highlighted.