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Drugs and Sports
ISBN: 9780791095539 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of drugs by American athletes has come under increasing scrutiny. As steroids, stimulants, and supplements have become more easily available and salaries and endorsement deals have become more lucrative, it seems that more athletes are availing themselves of substances designed to improve their performance - whether legal or illegal. But what kinds of restrictions and punishments should athletes face? Should the federal government get involved, or should it be up to professional sports associations to police their members? And is the problem of drugs in sports really just an example...
The use of drugs by American athletes has come under increasing scrutiny. As steroids, stimulants, and supplements have become more easily available a...
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141,40 zł |
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The Monster Within: Facing an Eating Disorder
ISBN: 9780800758028 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cynthia Rowland was an outwardly vivacious and successful television news reporter, who inwardly had slipped into the depths of bulimia. An addiction to binging and purging and heavy doses of laxatives finally landed her in treatment. The Monster Within tells the story of her descent into sickness, her struggle to learn why she was engaging in slow suicide, and the courage and grace it took to get well.
This updated edition includes a section of answers to some of the common questions the author is asked about bulimia. Anyone suffering from an eating disorder (there are eight million... Cynthia Rowland was an outwardly vivacious and successful television news reporter, who inwardly had slipped into the depths of bulimia. An addiction ...
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73,17 zł |
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Drugs and Behavior: A Sourcebook for the Human Services
ISBN: 9780803934627 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed for those working in psychotherapy, social work, public health and counselling, this reference work explores the effects of drug abuse on human behaviour and describes various treatment approaches. Patterns of abuse and the appropriate treatments are related to age, gender and ethnicity.
Designed for those working in psychotherapy, social work, public health and counselling, this reference work explores the effects of drug abuse on hum...
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556,07 zł |
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Drug Abuse Prevention with Multiethnic Youth
ISBN: 9780803957121 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is known about the influence of ethnicity upon drug use? How can this knowledge be used to develop prevention programmes for multi-ethnic youth? Contributors to this invaluable book address these and other pressing questions. They consider specific problems and challenges confronting researchers involved in studying substance abuse in minority communities; explore explanations for racial and ethnic differences in drug use; and examine possible risk and protective factors which influence use. Current drug abuse prevention models in settings including schools, communities and homeless...
What is known about the influence of ethnicity upon drug use? How can this knowledge be used to develop prevention programmes for multi-ethnic youth? ...
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556,07 zł |
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Managing Multiculturalism in Substance Abuse Services
ISBN: 9780803957350 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased number of ethnic groups living in Western societies offers challenges to the successful development and delivery of drug abuse services. This volume examines the history, patterns of drug use, customs and beliefs of five major racial groups - African, Asian, European, Native and Hispanics - and their relation to current treatment for drug abuse. Contributors address critical issues and make recommendations for change in public policy.
The increased number of ethnic groups living in Western societies offers challenges to the successful development and delivery of drug abuse services....
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770,69 zł |
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Managing Multiculturalism in Substance Abuse Services
ISBN: 9780803957367 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased number of ethnic groups living in Western societies offers challenges to the successful development and delivery of drug abuse services. This volume examines the history, patterns of drug use, customs and beliefs of five major racial groups - African, Asian, European, Native and Hispanics - and their relation to current treatment for drug abuse. Contributors address critical issues and make recommendations for change in public policy.
The increased number of ethnic groups living in Western societies offers challenges to the successful development and delivery of drug abuse services....
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556,07 zł |
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The Media, the President, and Public Opinion : A Longitudinal Analysis of the Drug Issue, 1984-1991
ISBN: 9780805816891 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume's objective is to examine the drug issue from mid-1984 to mid-1991 to determine how drug-related issues and events - both real and fabricated - and the primary agendas drove the issue over time. Topics include media interpretations, and the president and public relations.
This volume's objective is to examine the drug issue from mid-1984 to mid-1991 to determine how drug-related issues and events - both real and fabrica...
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185,30 zł |
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Chemical Dependency and Compulsive Behaviors
ISBN: 9780805826210 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a tremendous concern and interest in the number of chemical dependents with co-existing compulsive behaviors. However, no one has developed a theory that can explain the high prevalence of compulsive behaviors in chemical dependents, and more importantly, describe the treatment and recovery implications. The literature and professionals are divided with the counselors/clinicians on one side and the researchers on the other. The authors try to bridge this obvious gap by writing a book that can bring recent genetic/biochemical research to the counselor/clinician in a way that will help...
There is a tremendous concern and interest in the number of chemical dependents with co-existing compulsive behaviors. However, no one has developed a...
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175,55 zł |
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Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future
ISBN: 9780809015719 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,13 zł |
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Addiction is a Choice
ISBN: 9780812694048 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to successfully battle its detrimental effects on society. The author explains why current policies are ineffective and how they fail to cure the "problem." He argues that they actually encourage addiction by allowing people to feel blameless for the consequences of their choices.
Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to success...
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95,89 zł |
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Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
ISBN: 9780814715819 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all. Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for... Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each ... |
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434,12 zł |
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Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
ISBN: 9780814715826 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all. Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for... Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each ... |
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151,21 zł |
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Children of Addiction
ISBN: 9780815338994 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on alcoholism and/or drugs and behaviour in a variety of graduate level courses in education, medicine, psychology, psychiatry and public health and policy.
Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The ...
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253,60 zł |
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Children of Addiction
ISBN: 9780815339007 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on alcoholism and/or drugs and behaviour in a variety of graduate level courses in education, medicine, psychology, psychiatry and public health and policy.
Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The ...
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126,78 zł |
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Cómo Sanar Las Heridas de la Adicción Sexual
ISBN: 9780829744606 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro ofrece una senda que conduce mas alla de los pensamientos y conductas compulsivas para ofrecer sanidad y transformacion. El autor llega hasta las raices del problema, discute sus patrones e impacto, y esboza un enfoque biblico del autocontrol y la integridad sexual. Incluye una seccion sobre el problema de la adiccion sexual en la iglesia, las tendencias culturales y la investigacion actual, dando un mayor enfasis al crecimiento espiritual y refiriendose tambien a las singular necesidades y situaciones de las mujeres adictas al sexo.
Este libro ofrece una senda que conduce mas alla de los pensamientos y conductas compulsivas para ofrecer sanidad y transformacion. El autor llega has...
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57,60 zł |
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Finding Our Way Home: Addictions and Divine Love
ISBN: 9780836192629 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These stories describe the radical journal of creating a life with purpose, hope, and belonging. In Finding Our Way Home Noe draws from her experience as co-founder and program director at Samaritan Inns, an organization serving addicted and homeless men and women. Reading these stories can lead you to awareness of your own additions and divine love, a journey that can lead you home.
These stories describe the radical journal of creating a life with purpose, hope, and belonging. In Finding Our Way Home Noe draws from her experience...
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42,23 zł |
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A Brief History of Cocaine
ISBN: 9780849397752 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and why the rise of the cocaine trade is tightly linked with the rise of terrorism The author illustrates the challenges faced by today's governments and explains why current anti-drug efforts have had only a limited effect on this global market.
This updated edition reexamines the impact of cocaine production, trade, and consumption on society beginning in the 16th century. It shows how the commercialization of cocaine was driven by cartels of... A Brief History of Cocaine, Second Edition provides a fascinating historical insight into the reasons why cocaine use is increasing in popularity and ...
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312,13 zł |
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Gender, Drink and Drugs
ISBN: 9780854967193 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan, similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin -...
Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social a...
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707,28 zł |
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Gender, Drink and Drugs
ISBN: 9780854968671 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan, similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin -...
Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social a...
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195,06 zł |
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The Clinician's Guide to 12-Step Programs: How, When, and Why to Refer a Client
ISBN: 9780865692787 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive overview of major 12-step programs, this practical manual also describes the nuances of the various programs that address the same addictive behavior to assist the clinician in assessing and referring clients to any 12-step program. One of the unique features of this book is a description of how 12-step program philosophy aligns with eight major psychotherapy orientations. Another feature is the integration of the client's individual needs and ego structure with the appropriateness and timing of a referral to a 12-step program within the overall therapeutic process. In... A comprehensive overview of major 12-step programs, this practical manual also describes the nuances of the various programs that address the same ... |
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359,42 zł |
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