What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding, clinical practice lags behind. This book describes what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available.
Whatever their street names at the moment, amphetamines have been an insistent force in American life since they were marketed as the original antidepressants in the 1930s. This is the story of their rise, their fall, and their surprising resurgence.
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 ......
What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It
While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This book incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives, and talks, among the other things, about the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems.
This volume presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethno-cultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European and Middle Eastern descent.
Family relationships change dramatically when one or more members stops drinking. Far from offering a "quick fix" to family problems, in fact, the first years of sobriety are often marked by continuing tension. This text covers this topic.
In this anthology drug policy expert David Musto chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the most popular mind altering substances in the United States: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and opiates.
Weaving case studies from the wars against AIDS and drugs with an empirical analysis of congressional action on these issues, this title shows how members of Congress balance problem solving with re-election concerns, paying particular attention to their need to craft compelling rationales for their actions.
This workbook is an initial approach for helping teenagers become aware, both cognitively and emotionally, of the negative consequences of their drug and/or alcohol use. It is hoped that by seeing for themselves how not using can make their life better, teenagers will become motivated toward beginning treatment. This is a package of 5.
This is a staff manual for an intervention workbook made to help teenagers using drugs and alcohol recognize the frequency and negative consequences of that use
Illuminates the devastating power of addiction and describes an array of innovative approaches to facilitating clients' recovery. Including many creative techniques formed by interweaving concepts and techniques.
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.
