A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction
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A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780230314207
eBook ISBN
9781137319234
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Work
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. How to use this book
  9. addiction
  10. alcohol
  11. brief interventions
  12. cannabis
  13. celebrity drug use
  14. chronic relapsing condition
  15. classification of drugs
  16. community sentences
  17. contingency management
  18. contraception
  19. corruption
  20. crime
  21. death
  22. decriminalization
  23. doctors
  24. driving and drugs
  25. dual diagnosis
  26. education
  27. employment
  28. enforcement
  29. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
  30. evidence
  31. family
  32. gateway thesis
  33. harm reduction
  34. hepatitis C
  35. heroin
  36. HIV
  37. identity
  38. injecting
  39. international treaties
  40. learning to become a marijuana user
  41. legal highs
  42. legislation
  43. maturing out
  44. media
  45. methadone
  46. morality
  47. motivational interviewing
  48. naloxone
  49. normalization
  50. overdose
  51. parental drug use
  52. police
  53. politics
  54. prescribing
  55. prevalence
  56. prevention
  57. prison
  58. project match
  59. prostitution
  60. rapid assessment
  61. recovery
  62. rehabilitation
  63. relapse
  64. religion
  65. research
  66. residential rehabilitation
  67. risk factors for onset of drug use
  68. safe injecting centres
  69. set and setting
  70. spontaneous remission
  71. stages of change
  72. stigma
  73. strategies, drug
  74. suicide
  75. testing
  76. therapeutic communities
  77. tobacco
  78. treatment
  79. twelve-step programmes
  80. UKATT
  81. user organizations
  82. zero tolerance
  83. References
  84. Index