Drugs in American Society—A Graduate Course

Abstract

The School of Nursing at the State University of New York at Albany has offered, as a service to the university community, a course, not just a series of lectures, but a semester course in which students could explore the many factors associated with the use and abuse of drugs in America today. The course was designed to cover in depth the vast problems of drug abuse from the “street drugs” to the medicine cabinet. The student was expected to read and discuss current concepts of pharmacology, psychology, and sociology as they apply to drug abuse.