Technologies for Understanding the Root Causes of Substance Abuse and Addiction:Role of Ethnography in Understanding and Preventing Drug Abuse

摘要

The goal of this report is to introduce nonspecialists to the ethnographicapproach to substance use, review the historical development of the field, discuss several central areas of concern, and to draw out policy implications. This paper is primarily concerned with research on illicit drug use in the United States. Because of this, two areas in which ethnographers have made substantial