Based on 46 interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this book examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals and for prevention and drug policy.
Exploring stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of substance use without professional help, this book examines reasons for avoiding treatment, strategies employed to break away from dependency and identifying candidates for this approach.
America has a history of drug panics in which social problems have been blamed on the effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs and rave drugs. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing war on drugs.
This instructive manual presents a pragmatic and clinically proven approach to the prevention and treatment of undergraduate alcohol abuse. Including numerous reproductive handouts and assessment forms, the book takes readers step-by-step through conducting BASICS assessment and feedback sessions.
Seeks to expand our thinking about drug control in a free society by looking at the ethical issues as well as anthropological, sociological, economic, political, and philosophical questions that arise in the debate. This book includes essays by William Bennett, President Clinton, Thomas Szasz, George Will, John Q Wilson, and others.
In this book for parents and professionals who work to help children with fetal alcohol syndrome and effects (FAS/FAE), Streissguth offers an overview of the condition, and discusses the diagnostic process, research conducted since the syndrome w
Drug abuse, alcoholism, compulsive gambling, and other destructive addictions plague our society. Theories of addiction locate its cause variously--in factors related to the substance, the addict's personality, or to the addict's environment. Arguments about effective treatment programs are fierce. Essential Papers on Addiction presents the ......
Twenty-five papers widen the scope of psychoanalysis from Freud's primary focus on neurosis to include drug addiction. The organizing themes are: historical papers (1929-1937), psychoanalytic theories of addiction, case studies, counter/transference, modifications in psychoanalytic technique, the d
The book takes a comprehensive, no-holds-barred look at the easy path to drug addiction and the tough road to recovery. This book can help people confront addiction in their own lives and in their families by exploring the biological roots of addiction and the way addicts are allowed to deny their addiction by compassionate, well-meaning people.
Presents a compelling portrait of the global drug market and the consequences of this international plague. Paul Stares explains that there are good reasons to fear that the global market for drugs will continue to expand in the coming years: profits to the traffickers are huge; the revolutionary advances in technology facilitate smuggling, as do ......
Step Workbook for Adult Chemical Dependency Recovery is designed to encourage patients not only to answer questions, but to ask them as well. It enables patients to examine their addiction in the context of their entire life structure. This is a package of 5.
Rejects the pabulum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the 'war on drugs'. This work documents the failure of the drug war and the erroneous premise central to its destructive and doomed strategy: the idea that drug taking controls human behaviour; that drugs 'cause' physical dependency.
