The Drug Conversation: How to Talk to Your Child about Drugs

ISBN-13: 9781909726574 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str.

Owen Bowden-Jones

Opis

'Should I drug test my child?' 'I've just found drugs in their room, what do I do now?' The Drug Conversation is a guide for parents about how to raise the thorny issue of drugs with their children. It will help you begin a useful conversation about drugs with your child. The book provides information on the different types of drugs available, their attractions and harms, how they work in the brain, and who uses them and why. It covers issues such as how to detect drug use, drug testing, synthetic drugs ('legal highs'), accessing help, effective treatments and what to expect from professional medical services. The Drug Conversation also gives practical advice on how to prepare for and have a conversation about drugs with your child - including examples of actual conversations between parents and children. Case studies from the author's own clinical practice are used to illustrate the main points. All parents will need this book at some stage. It will help you to feel properly informed about drugs, more confident in talking to your child, more able to keep drug-related problems from developing and better equipped to tackle problems if they do arise.

Recenzje

'I would recommend this book to parents, GP colleagues and to doctors in training. This is a very good book - comprehensive, sensible and written with authority. It also has a strong person focus and very good production values. The book is up to date and covers a number of new areas such as legal highs. It does also acknowledge the changing issues and points to current, validated web sources of information. The case histories are strong, illustrate the text and key principles but do not moralise or frighten. Literature articles are used in context and statistical sources are used to show key demographic points. The writing style is excellent: this is a book that is actually difficult to put down!' British Medical Association Programme and Award Winners 2017

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. What are psychoactive drugs, who uses them and why?; 2. Drug use and adolescence; 3. Having the drug conversation with your child; 4. Drugs and the brain; 5. Types of drugs; 6. Rise of the synthetics; 7. Detecting drug use and what to do about it; 8. Treatment and recovery; 9. Final thoughts; Appendix; References; Index.