A-Z of Substance Misuse & Drug Addiction

ISBN-13: 9780230314207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 248 str.

Neil McKeganey

Opis

If you are looking for an incisive and highly readable account of current research and debates in the field of drugs and substance misuse, then this is the book for you.
Written by a leading researcher and commentator, the A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction succinctly encapsulates the key ideas in policy and practice which dominate the addictions field. Expertly organised into just over 70 entries, the book offers numerous cross-references to help you steer a path between connecting ideas. An impressive range of contemporary references accompany the entries, enabling you to dig deeper into the extensive multidisciplinary literature.
International in scope and covering legal and illegal drugs, this is an ideal gateway text and companion for students, trainees, practitioners and researchers studying or working in the substance misuse and addictions fields."

Spis treści

1. Addiction 2. Alcohol 3. Brief Interventions 4. Cannabis 5. Celebrity Drug Use 6. Chronic Relapsing Condition 7. Classification of Drugs 8. Community Sentences 9. Contingency Management 10. Contraception 11. Corruption 12. Crime 13. Death 14. Decriminalisation 15. Doctors 16. Driving and Drugs 17. Dual Diagnosis 18. Education 19. Employment 20. Enforcement 21. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction 22. Evidence 23. Family 24. Gateway Thesis 25. Harm Reduction 26. Hepatitis C 27. Heroin 28. HIV 29. Identity. 30. Injecting 31. International Treaties 32. Learning to Become a Marihuana User 33. Legal Highs 34. Legislation 35. Maturing Out 36. Media 37. Methadone 38. Morality 39. Motivational Interviewing 40. Naloxone 41. Normalization 42. Overdose 43. Parental Drug Use 44. Police 45. Politics 46. Prescribing 47. Prevalence 48. Prevention 49. Prison 50. Project Match 51. Prostitution 52. Rapid Assessment 53. Recovery 54. Rehabilitation 55. Relapse 56. Religion 57. Research 58. Residential rehabilitation 59. Risk Factors 60. Safe Injecting Centres 61. Set and Setting 62. Spontaneous Remission 63. Stages of Change 64. Stigma 65. Strategies, drug 66. Suicide 67. Testing 68. Therapeutic Communities 69. Tobacco 70. Treatment 71. Twelve Step Programmes 72. UKATT 73. User Organizations 74. Zero Tolerance.

O autorze

Neil McKeganey is Professor of Drug Misuse Research at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow, UK, which he set up 1994. It is now one of the leading UK research centres focussed on illegal drugs. He has written widely on this subjects encompassing both academic and practitioner audiences. Neil has acted in an advisory role for a number of government departments and international organisations, including the World Health Organization, the UK Home Office, the US Department of Justice the Scottish Executive.