Career Opportunities

What kind of careers will Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior help prepare you for?

• Health care professions. Students interested in becoming physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and related health care workers will gain valuable insights into substance use and abuse. Medical researchers and reporters also will benefit from the background and applications for this billion dollar industry.
• Mental health professions.Substance-abuse counselors as well as clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and others who work with mental illness need to know the bald facts about psychoactive drugs. The informative detail this book provides is also relevant to community and school counselors because of the impact of alcoholism and drug abuse on children and families.
• Criminal justice professions. The information on how different drugs affect behavior and the evolution of our current drugs legislation is critical to those pursuing careers as police officers, probation and parole officers, attorneys, and personnel in prison-based drug treatment programs.
• Education. Those interested in the teaching professions - teachers, principals, professors - can use this material to help recognize students using or under the influence of drugs, to select age-appropriate prevention programs, and to evaluate treatment options. They will understand how many students are affected by drug or alcohol problems in the family.
• Business and human resource professions.Business managers, human resourcepersonnel, and others in supervisory positions need to know how to recognize and deal with substance abuse problems in employees and their families. Management skills will be enhanced by understanding the psychology and effects of substance abuse, an important issue in any organization.