Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention
ISBN: 9780521035040 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situations of use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behavior, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. The author challenges the current...
An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situations of use are the result of a combination of biological and social fa...
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301,42 zł |
Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction
ISBN: 9780521038799 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists. The volume offers an up-to-date exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addiction, an argument for a "visceral theory of addiction," a discussion of compulsive gambling as a form of addiction, several discussions of George Ainslie's...
The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is t...
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270,24 zł |
Alcohol and the Community: A Systems Approach to Prevention
ISBN: 9780521591874 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situations of use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behavior, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. The author challenges the current...
An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity, and situations of use are the result of a combination of biological and social fa...
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563,02 zł |
Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction
ISBN: 9780521640084 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is the only book-length treatment of the subject and includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists, and economists. The volume offers an up-to-date exposition of the neurophysiology of addiction, a critical examination of the Becker theory of rational addiction, an argument for a "visceral theory of addiction," a discussion of compulsive gambling as a form of addiction, several discussions of George Ainslie's...
The essays in this volume offer the most thorough and up-to-date discussion available of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This is t...
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379,10 zł |
Stages and Pathways of Drug Involvement: Examining the Gateway Hypothesis
ISBN: 9780521789691 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis, according to which young people who progress in the use of drugs follow a specific sequence from the use of tobacco or alcohol to the use of illicit drugs to the use of illicit drugs other than marijuana. This volume evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the hypothesis from multiple disciplinary perspectives representing sociology, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, animal behavior, molecular biology and prevention.
This book represents a systematic and broadly based discussion and evaluation of the Gateway Hypothesis, according to which young people who progress ...
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190,17 zł |
Don't Call It Love: Recovery From Sexual Addiction
ISBN: 9780553351385 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books arechanging the lives ofthousands "
"I lost three marriages, all because of affairs.""I became suicidal because of multiple intenseinvolvements." "I spent money on sex when Ineeded it for children's clothes." "Ilost promotion opportunities and a specialscholarship because my co-workers found out about my sexlife." Every day they face the possibility ofdestruction, risking their families, fiances, jobs, dignity, and health. They come from all walksof life: ministers, physicians, therapists,... "Dr. Patrick Carnes is a creative, pioneering, and courageous human being. His books arechanging the lives ofthousands "
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93,09 zł |
This Must Be Hell: A Look at Pathological Gambling
ISBN: 9780595134984 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Treatment of Chemical Dependency with Clinical Hypnotherapy
ISBN: 9780595146994 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
ISBN: 9780595380213 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in one of its many forms, and its presence has been an invisible hand shaping events, preparing the ground for the strangest drug epidemic the world has ever seen. Today methamphetamine is everywhere, and there seems to be no way of stemming its growth.
It is the backbone of Ritalin and the 'club drugs" Ecstasy, Eve and Cat. According to the... Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yell...
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69,67 zł |
American Meth: A History of the Methamphetamine Epidemic in America
ISBN: 9780595836390 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yellow, crystalline powder. Everyone from Hitler to President Kennedy to Elvis to Jack Kerouac indulged in one of its many forms, and its presence has been an invisible hand shaping events, preparing the ground for the strangest drug epidemic the world has ever seen. Today methamphetamine is everywhere, and there seems to be no way of stemming its growth.
It is the backbone of Ritalin and the "club drugs" Ecstasy, Eve and Cat. According to the... Methamphetamine: the quintessential American drug. American housewives, heads of state, businessmen and poets alike have acquired a taste for the yell...
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113,35 zł |
Drug-Impaired Professionals
ISBN: 9780674001749 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I started out snorting a couple of lines a night and ended up injecting and snorting about three grams a day."--That could be your dentist talking. Professionals trusted with our well-being are the last people we suspect of drug addiction. And yet they are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and other... "I started out snorting a couple of lines a night and ended up injecting and snorting about three grams a day."--That could be your dentist talk... |
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Cocaine Addiction: Theory, Research and Treatment
ISBN: 9780674001787 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It inspired written testimonials from William McKinley, Thomas Edison, and Sarah Bernhardt; merited a medal from Pope Leo XIII; produced "exhilaration and lasting euphoria" in Sigmund Freud. Once the stimulant of choice of the enlightened and the elite, cocaine has become, a century later, a plague, ravaging the lives of millions. This book is the first to draw together all the facts about this pervasive drug--from its natural occurrence in a tea-like native South American plant to its devastating appearance as crack in the inner cities of the United States. Drawing on the latest... It inspired written testimonials from William McKinley, Thomas Edison, and Sarah Bernhardt; merited a medal from Pope Leo XIII; produced "exhilarat... |
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Bridges to Recovery: Addiction, Family Therapy, and Multicultural Treatment
ISBN: 9780684846491 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At last, a book that defines a new language for treating substance abuse in an increasingly culturally diverse population. Until now, therapists, counselors, and teachers who treat addiction within the context of the whole family have had to make do with outdated one-size-fits-all theories and treatment programs.
Bridges to Recovery is the first book to bring together experts from three major fields within psychotherapy -- family therapy, addiction counseling and multicultural treatment -- to provide a practical and flexible framework for working with families within their... At last, a book that defines a new language for treating substance abuse in an increasingly culturally diverse population. Until now, therapists, coun...
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240,24 zł |
Blaming the Brain: The Truth about Drugs and Mental Health
ISBN: 9780743237871 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last thirty years, there has been a radical shift in thinking about the causes of mental illness. The psychiatric establishment and the health care industry have shifted 180 degrees from blaming mother to blaming the brain as the source of mental disorders. Whereas experience and environment were long viewed as the root causes of most emotional problems, now it is common to believe that mental disturbances -- from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia -- are determined by brain chemistry. And many people have come to accept the broader notion that their very personalities are...
Over the last thirty years, there has been a radical shift in thinking about the causes of mental illness. The psychiatric establishment and the healt...
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91,51 zł |
The Psychology of Addiction
ISBN: 9780748401871 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a comprehensive overview of psychological approaches to understanding addictions. Without denying the importance of biological factors, emphasis is placed more upon social, psychological and emotional factors as is necessary to a complete understanding of addiction. Within this framework, an addiction is not limited to substance-based behaviours such as drinking alcohol, smoking or drug use. Although these important areas are covered, a wider perspective is taken to include behavioural addictions such as gambling, violence and joy riding. Finally, prevention approaches are...
This text provides a comprehensive overview of psychological approaches to understanding addictions. Without denying the importance of biological fact...
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682,09 zł |
Substance Abuse Program Accreditation Guide
ISBN: 9780761905646 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guidebook is designed to support staff and administrators of substance abuse treatment programmes in their efforts to comply with the 1995 complete revision of accreditation standards by the Joint Commission on Accreditation on Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), in the United States.
This practical guidebook is designed to support staff and administrators of substance abuse treatment programmes in their efforts to comply with the 1...
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Alcohol Use Among Adolescents
ISBN: 9780761909200 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The beauty of the book is in the detail and the selection of research findings which encourage one to go to the 12 pages of references to seek out the original papers' - 'Alcohol & Alcoholism Covering the latest research and literature on the use of alcohol by adolescents, this concise book provides leads for understanding its aetiology and effective interventions, as well as pointing to future lines of research. Topics covered include: an introduction to the scope of issues related to alcohol use; a review of approaches to the measurement of alcohol-related behaviours among adolescents; and...
'The beauty of the book is in the detail and the selection of research findings which encourage one to go to the 12 pages of references to seek out th...
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571,90 zł |
Family Recovery and Substance Abuse: A Twelve-Step Guide for Treatment
ISBN: 9780761911104 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presented as a therapist's guide, Family Recovery details a research-based approach to working with the families of substance abusers.
Presented as a therapist's guide, Family Recovery details a research-based approach to working with the families of substance abusers.
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970,67 zł |
Family Recovery and Substance Abuse: A Twelve-Step Guide for Treatment
ISBN: 9780761911111 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
PLEASE UPDATE SAGE UK AND SAGE INDIA ADDRESSES ON IMPRINT PAGE.
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671,60 zł |
Drugs and Drug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration
ISBN: 9780761930068 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drugs and Drug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration provides a cross-national perspective on the regulation of drug use by examining and critiquing drug policies in the United States and abroad in terms of their scope, goals, and effectiveness. In this engaging text, authors Clayton J. Mosher and Scott Akins discuss the physiological, psychological, and behavioral effects of legal and illicit drugs; the patterns and correlates of use; and theories of the "causes" of drug use. Key Features: * Offers more coverage of drug policy issues than competitive books: This book addresses the...
Drugs and Drug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration provides a cross-national perspective on the regulation of drug use by examining and cr...
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970,67 zł |