Smack: Heroin and the American City
ISBN: 9780812221800 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs. During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas used their international networks to import and distribute the drug to cities throughout the country, generating vast sums of capital in return. Schneider uncovers how New York, as... Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what... |
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125,87 zł |
Hooked but not Hopeless: Escaping the Lure of Addiction
ISBN: 9780984913503 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some people more vulnerable to addiction than others? Why isn't willpower enough to escape the lure of addiction? Why can't enablers and co-dependents help the addict? Where can the addict find hope? What are the keys to recovery? How can an addict stay unhooked? Addiction is ugly and it's not curable. But it doesn't have to be fatal-for the addict or the family. Many addicts survive to live a better life, and broken families are often healed. But admitting the condition, acknowledging the awful reality, requires courage. And staying clean takes commitment and determination. The...
Why are some people more vulnerable to addiction than others? Why isn't willpower enough to escape the lure of addiction? Why can't enablers and co-de...
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68,57 zł |
The Heroin Solution
ISBN: 9780300027815 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medically-based history of heroin's development and medical use, its demonization and widespread abuse, and the social control policies it engendered. Compares British and American systems for the treatment of addicts, and makes medical and policy recommendations.
Medically-based history of heroin's development and medical use, its demonization and widespread abuse, and the social control policies it engendered....
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220,33 zł |
A Schizophrenic Crack Mind's Salvation In Jesus Christ
ISBN: 9780615215716 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A former cocaine user and schizophrenic chronicles his life.
A former cocaine user and schizophrenic chronicles his life.
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98,03 zł |
Crushing the shackles of addiction: Helping others towards freedom from drug addiction
ISBN: 9781456527020 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you interested to learn more about helping someone that is addicted to drugs? This book will provide you with the essential skills. Learn more about intervention strategies and practical tools to coach someone towards freedom from addiction. Recommended for parents, pastors, counselors, teachers and life coaches. Written from a Christ-centered point of view.
Are you interested to learn more about helping someone that is addicted to drugs? This book will provide you with the essential skills. Learn more abo...
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100,67 zł |
What Worked for Me!: A Contemporary Guide to Overcoming Substance Abuse.
ISBN: 9781460985229 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is an affliction? Afflictions are nothing more than habits that we overindulge to the point that we are out of control. You reach a point where this overfed habit consumes your whole being, creating a person totally out of control. Usually, other bad habits follow and add themselves to your first affliction. I was born in Tampa Florida where I lived until the age of thirty-six. For twenty-three years my world revolved around a life of drug use. At fifteen I tried crack cocaine for the first time and by nineteen had become a junkie. I abused many different drugs, but my drug of choice was...
What is an affliction? Afflictions are nothing more than habits that we overindulge to the point that we are out of control. You reach a point where t...
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68,75 zł |
Addictions And Buprenorphine
ISBN: 9781469158631 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
Addictions And Buprenorphine
ISBN: 9781469158648 / Angielski / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,54 zł |
From Hustlers to Holiness
ISBN: 9781613792810 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,04 zł |
The Anger From Within
ISBN: 9781613798720 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
The Anger From Within
ISBN: 9781613798737 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,48 zł |
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation: Commit
ISBN: 9780895031556 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This special issue of the International Quarterly of Community Health Education is devoted exclusively to the Community Intervention Trial to Reduce Heavy Smoking (COMMIT). This eight year, $45 million program, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, is the largest community smoking intervention ever attempted. The eight articles provided here present a comprehensive overview of the project's rationale, intervention, and evaluation plan. COMMIT is of special interest to health educators because it endeavors to integrate research, community organization, and rigorous evaluation to... This special issue of the International Quarterly of Community Health Education is devoted exclusively to the Community Intervention Trial to Reduc... |
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209,82 zł |
Guidlines for Implementing and Evaluating the Portugese Drug Strategy
ISBN: 9780833032690 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portugal has changed its drug policy by adopting a strategy based upon a series of principles to contain and reduce the negative effects of substance abuse. This report analyzes the Portuguese Drug Strategy and develops recommendations for its implementation and evaluation.
Portugal has changed its drug policy by adopting a strategy based upon a series of principles to contain and reduce the negative effects of substance ...
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110,07 zł |
Ethics & Professional Development for Addiction Counselors: Principles, Guidelines & Issues for Training, Licensing, Certification and Re-Certificatio
ISBN: 9781470149352 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ethics & Professional Development for Addiction Counselors, Dr. Marcus Mottley defines and clarifies a wide number of ethical issues and dilemmas involving conflicts of interest, boundary issues, confidentiality, professional behaviors and the core obligations, roles and responsibilities of addiction counselors. Addiction professionals who use this book will become highly aware of their own values, attitudes and behaviors and how these might impact their professional conduct and their relationships with clients. Counselors will also gain insights and get clarification on key topics such as...
In Ethics & Professional Development for Addiction Counselors, Dr. Marcus Mottley defines and clarifies a wide number of ethical issues and dilemmas i...
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59,40 zł |
The Crack in Her Heart
ISBN: 9781466254657 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the very dramatic and somewhat tragic life of Amani, who lives out her own true life stories of crack and heroin addiction, as well as prostitution while living on the streets of a forgotten Eastern Ohio town. The stories take many twists and turns which will make you laugh, cry, and cringe as she tells them while going through a very dramatic rehabilitation. She then finds her higher power which changes her life into a dream she never thought possible The graphic and intense content and story line of this book will keep you entranced A real page turner
This is the very dramatic and somewhat tragic life of Amani, who lives out her own true life stories of crack and heroin addiction, as well as prostit...
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41,04 zł |
Nitrous Oxide & Neurotransmission
ISBN: 9781614701064 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a lipid-soluble molecule, nitrous oxide enters the brain rapidly to alter the flow of information along a multitude of neuronal pathways and synapses by interfering with membrane ion channels and the action of key neurotransmitters. Some neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and the endogenous opioid peptides, act through G-protein coupled receptors mainly to adjust or modulate synaptic strength, whereas GABA and glutamate are amino acids known for their strong inhibitory or excitatory synaptic effects. Thus, nitrous oxide and nitric oxide belong to what now is becoming a sizeable group of...
As a lipid-soluble molecule, nitrous oxide enters the brain rapidly to alter the flow of information along a multitude of neuronal pathways and synaps...
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Yes We Can Save Our Children: Vpsap
ISBN: 9781469174693 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
Yes We Can Save Our Children: Vpsap
ISBN: 9781469174709 / Angielski / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,54 zł |
Searching for the Truth about Drugs: The Life and Calling of Marty Gruber
ISBN: 9781462401062 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you have ever wondered what it would be like to travel the road that a drug addict has chosen, sit back and read about the road into living hell-and back. Marty Gruber abused drugs for 45 years, and he attempted suicide immediately before he found the door of escape from drug abuse, and the key to a meaningful life. With the aid of Providence Marty found long term meaning, and in the process he has been given the privilege of warning teens about the trap of drug abuse. Research performed in 2010 shows that 48.2 percent of America's high school seniors have tried illicit... If you have ever wondered what it would be like to travel the road that a drug addict has chosen, sit back and read about the road into living hell... |
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The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner
ISBN: 9781618520258 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Substance abuse continues to be a problem in society, particularly among adolescents, who are exposed at younger ages to new and stronger drugs with higher addictive potential and greater availability. In response, award-winning teen addictions clinician and research expert Dr. Jennifer Bruha has created an insightful and innovative new workbook that helps counselors, parents and adolescents themselves deal with the challenges of teen addiction and craft a realistic plan for change. The Adolescent Relapse Prevention Planner" contains a variety of educational information, discussion topics and...
Substance abuse continues to be a problem in society, particularly among adolescents, who are exposed at younger ages to new and stronger drugs with h...
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100,24 zł |