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Drugs and Addictive Behaviour: A Guide to Treatment
This completely revised and updated third edition presents a comprehensive overview of substance misuse and dependence. The volume places a special emphasis on practical, evidence-based approaches to the assessment and management of a wide range of drug-related problems in a variety of clinical settings, and includes an entirely new chapter on alcohol abuse. The author defines all the terms and describes the effects of substance misuse on a patient's life. Epidemiology, and international prevention and drug control policies are covered to address the global nature of the problem, and the appendix provides a series of clinical intervention tools, among them a Substance Misuse Assessment Questionnaire.
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520 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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October 30, 2014
This is a serious book written with enough humour and care to be readable by the average person. For example, the opening question, 'What is a drug?' is met by these answers:
'A substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.'
'A substance used as a medicine in the treatment of diagnosed mental or physical illness.'
He then points out that coffee, cannabis, and tobacco were all used for these properties in times gone by.
The manner in which a local, culturally-acceptable drug becomes strenghtened, exported, and eventually brought back home in its stronger form is clearly documented.
The book covers many aspects of addiction and many drugs; this reader found the section on opium to be most enlightening. From a drug used by the intelligentia to a smuggling, problem-ridden phenomenon, in a few years. The role of (illegal) profit in drugs is clearly demonstrated.
This is a large, comprehensive book. Its author was six time president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board. British, his English is clear with a minimum of technical terms.
I came across a reference to this work while waiting for a friend with an appointment. It was in the only interesting (or current) magazine in the medical office. The review was probably better than this one, and induced me to find and get the book.
If this topic interests you, this is a very good place to start.
'A substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.'
'A substance used as a medicine in the treatment of diagnosed mental or physical illness.'
He then points out that coffee, cannabis, and tobacco were all used for these properties in times gone by.
The manner in which a local, culturally-acceptable drug becomes strenghtened, exported, and eventually brought back home in its stronger form is clearly documented.
The book covers many aspects of addiction and many drugs; this reader found the section on opium to be most enlightening. From a drug used by the intelligentia to a smuggling, problem-ridden phenomenon, in a few years. The role of (illegal) profit in drugs is clearly demonstrated.
This is a large, comprehensive book. Its author was six time president of the UN International Narcotics Control Board. British, his English is clear with a minimum of technical terms.
I came across a reference to this work while waiting for a friend with an appointment. It was in the only interesting (or current) magazine in the medical office. The review was probably better than this one, and induced me to find and get the book.
If this topic interests you, this is a very good place to start.
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