Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves

With the ever-increasing menace of drug abuse in America and elsewhere, there have appeared a host of tudie seeking to highlight as well as to suggest ways to cope with thi global problem. The drug-related crisis with which America is faced ha been discussed thoroughly in this book. Mauri's Wh...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:510e8f104d044a01a599835d429fa41a2021-12-02T19:40:14ZWhy Our Children Are Killing Themselves10.35632/ajis.v8i3.26132690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/510e8f104d044a01a599835d429fa41a1991-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2613https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 With the ever-increasing menace of drug abuse in America and elsewhere, there have appeared a host of tudie seeking to highlight as well as to suggest ways to cope with thi global problem. The drug-related crisis with which America is faced ha been discussed thoroughly in this book. Mauri's Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves is not merely an academic tudy, but is a pragmatic approach which many readers as well as policy makers and those fighting the drug menace will find interesting, educational, and useful. The book is a sociopsychological study of an America afflicted by drug abuse, a curse which has hit American children especially hard. With more and more parents themselves becoming drug addicts, American society is witnessing the worst forms of child neglect, all of which are "threatening to produce a new generation of psychologically deformed youths" (p. vii). Saalakhan has divided the book into three parts. The first portion deals with the age-old legacy of cocaine use in America and explains how American cities have become ignominious centers of drug-related crimes. The author has used extensive statistical data to highlight the dangerous consequences of drug abuse. Moreover, he is not content with just explaining the problem ... Ishtiyaque DanishInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 8, Iss 3 (1991)
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Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves
description With the ever-increasing menace of drug abuse in America and elsewhere, there have appeared a host of tudie seeking to highlight as well as to suggest ways to cope with thi global problem. The drug-related crisis with which America is faced ha been discussed thoroughly in this book. Mauri's Why Our Children Are Killing Themselves is not merely an academic tudy, but is a pragmatic approach which many readers as well as policy makers and those fighting the drug menace will find interesting, educational, and useful. The book is a sociopsychological study of an America afflicted by drug abuse, a curse which has hit American children especially hard. With more and more parents themselves becoming drug addicts, American society is witnessing the worst forms of child neglect, all of which are "threatening to produce a new generation of psychologically deformed youths" (p. vii). Saalakhan has divided the book into three parts. The first portion deals with the age-old legacy of cocaine use in America and explains how American cities have become ignominious centers of drug-related crimes. The author has used extensive statistical data to highlight the dangerous consequences of drug abuse. Moreover, he is not content with just explaining the problem ...
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