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Psychoactive Substances and Violence
This report summarizes the current status of research on the relationship between violence and drugs, including alcohol and illegal psychoactive drugs, and evaluations of intervention to prevent drug-related violence. Results reveal that research has uncovered strong correlations between violence and psychoactive substances, but the underlying relationships differ by type of drug. The links between violence and drugs involve broad social and economic forces, the settings in which people obtain and consume the drugs, and biological processes that underlie all human behavior. These factors interact in chains of events that may extend back from an intermediate triggering event such as an argument to long-term predisposing processes that begin in childhood.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/GovPubs/psycviol.htm
Publication Year: 1994
Publisher National Institute of Justice 810 Seventh Street, Northwest Washington, dc 20531 Phone: 800-851-3420 Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij
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Boston University School of Public Health 
