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Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > Addiction & therapy
This book provides professionals with the confidence and know-how
to build a complete substance misuse management programme and
deliver it within their respective workplace, regardless of sector
or discipline. Organizations are frequently in the dark about their
rights and obligations where substance misuse takes place in their
workplace, affects performance or employee wellbeing, or in extreme
cases has a devastating impact on both the company and its
employees. There is no formal training for HR, Occupational Health
or Health and Safety professionals, solicitors, union
representatives and many more situations. This book is written in
such a way that as to help those professions, as well as
individuals, understand the step-by-step process for building a
complete workplace substance and alcohol misuse programme. Managing
Workplace Substance Misuse is written by the UK's only registered
expert witness for substance misuse policy writing, implementation
and mediation. With decades of expertise and first-hand experience
of implementing effective policies in some of the UK and world's
biggest organizations, Trevor Hall helps all organizations navigate
this complex problem, offering consultancy advice and a roadmap to
policy development and its implementation, providing you with a
comprehensive consultancy in one volume. He explains, too, the
central role industry and commerce plays in the identification of
substance misuse and the rehabilitation of staff, as well as what
organizations can do to protect themselves from the culpability of
getting things wrong in a litigious society.
Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior
becomes addicted, and many who are addicted have been able to
recover. This authoritative book, now revised and updated, has
given tens of thousands of professionals and students a
state-of-the-art framework for understanding the journey both into
and out of addiction. From Carlo C. DiClemente, codeveloper of the
transtheoretical model (TTM), the book identifies the stages and
processes involved in initiating, modifying, maintaining, or
stopping any pattern of behavior. Grounded in extensive research,
and illustrated with vivid case examples, the book shows how using
the TTM can help overcome obstacles to change and make treatment
and prevention more effective. New to This Edition *Incorporates 15
years of research advances, contemporary prevention and treatment
approaches, and the ongoing development of the TTM. *Chapter on
current developments in intervention research. *Expanded
discussions of neuroscience; self-regulation; behavioral economics;
self-help, mutual help, and spirituality; motivational issues;
"process addictions" (gambling and sex addiction); and more.
*Deeper coverage of risk and protective factors across adolescent
and young adult development.
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or
recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs,
prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But
despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction
is trapped in unfounded twentieth century ideas, addiction as a
crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment.
Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the
notion of a simple "addictive personality," Unbroken Brain offers a
radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions
are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way
can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and
policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a
spectrum - and they can be a normal response to an extreme
situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book
illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and
chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery - and
why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that
works for all. Combining Maia's personal story with a distillation
of more than twenty-five years of science and research, Unbroken
Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about
addiction.
Anabolic Steroid Abuse in Public Safety Personnel: A Forensic
Manual provides readers with information on both the history and
overwhelming evidence relating to steroid abuse in the law
enforcement subculture. The text raises awareness regarding the
pervasiveness of the problem that has grown into a systemic and
nationwide phenomenon, and then addresses the consequences of
anabolic steroid abuse on individual health, agency liability, and
public safety. Particular attention is paid to forensic issues,
including investigative, evidentiary, and legal concerns,
facilitating just and lawful outcomes when these crimes are
suspected or exposed.
This updated and expanded edition of The Pregnant Drug Addict
(1995) explores the difficulties of managing the maternity care of
those who are drug dependent. Catherine Siney has brought together
a number of specialists whose combined expertise provides an
essential guide to this problematic subject. Key issues include the
medical and obstetric problems of mothers, the consequences for the
child, pregnant women who are HIV positive or have hepatitis B,
outreach work and counselling.
Whether drinking Red Bull, relieving chronic pain with oxycodone,
or experimenting with Ecstasy, Americans participate in a culture
of self-medication, using psychoactive substances to enhance or
manage our moods. A "drug-free America" seems to be a fantasyland
that most people don't want to inhabit. High: Drugs, Desire, and a
Nation of Users asks fundamental questions about US drug policies
and social norms. Why do we endorse the use of some drugs and
criminalize others? Why do we accept the necessity of a
doctor-prescribed opiate but not the same thing bought off the
street? This divided approach shapes public policy, the justice
system, research, social services, and health care. And despite the
decades-old war on drugs, drug use remains relatively unchanged.
Ingrid Walker speaks to the silencing effects of both
criminalization and medicalization, incorporating first-person
narratives to show a wide variety of user experiences with drugs.
By challenging current thinking about drugs and users, Walker calls
for a next wave of drug policy reform in the United States,
beginning with recognizing the full spectrum of drug use practices.
Recovering Assemblages offers an exciting new insight into the
policies and practices of recovery and drug use bridging critical
drug studies and the sociology of health and illness. The book
investigates lived experiences of young people in Azerbaijan and
Germany during their personal recovery from alcohol and other drug
use and shows the contingency of 'real' experiences. The
sociomaterial and ontological analyses unfold the interrelation of
practices, spaces, bodies, and affects in experiencing recovery
both within and outside of various treatment facilities. The book
will appeal to a range of scholars, postgraduates, and
undergraduates engaged in critical, methodological, and empirical
studies of recovery, drug use, and policy.
Italian Association on Addiction Psychiatry 2002 International
Meeting Proceedings. This volume is a wide-spectrum reflection
springing from the contributions of some of the most important
European and American researchers in the dual diagnosis field, who
were involved in the national SIP.Dip. Conference in Milan on July
2002. They contributed to a shared understanding of issues such as
the relevance of psychiatric diagnosis in addiction treatment
planning, with experiences from Germany, Netherlands, Greece,
Spain, England, and Thomas McLellan's paradigmatic research on
assessment instruments carried out over the last 30 years in the
USA.
Healing Trauma is an evidence-based, gender-responsive, six-session
(90-minute sessions) curriculum for women, designed for settings in
which a short-term intervention is needed. Examples are a
community-based program, such as a mental health center; an
addiction treatment program; a private practice setting; a
correctional facility (jail or prison); and an agency addressing
domestic violence. Healing Trauma includes: Foundational
information for facilitators. Current statistics about abuse and
other forms of trauma. The latest discoveries, publications, and
insights in the field; particularly neuroscience. Lectures and
activities for the participants that reflect current thinking and
practice. A variety of yoga poses, grounding activities, and
self-soothing activities. The curriculum uses psychoeducational and
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques, expressive arts,
body-focused exercises, mindfulness, and relational therapy. What
Are the Program Components? Healing Trauma includes a reproducible
facilitator guide and a reproducible participant workbook (in both
English and Spanish) on a USB or in a digital delivery format. The
facilitator guide contains background information about trauma and
session outlines that are similar to lesson plans. The six sessions
in the program are: Session 1: Welcome and Introduction to the
Subject of Trauma Session 2: Power and Abuse Session 3: The Process
of Trauma and Self-Care Session 4: The ACE Questionnaire and Anger
Session 5: Healthy Relationships Session 6: Love, Endings, and
Certificates
Exploring Trauma is a gender-responsive program addressing the
trauma experiences of men. This six-session program includes a
facilitator guide and a reproducible participant workbook
(available in both English and Spanish) designed for working with
men in a setting where a short-term intervention is needed.
Examples of settings in which the program can be used are a
community-based program, such as a community mental health center;
an addiction treatment program; a private practice setting; a
correctional facility (jail or prison); or an agency charged with
addressing domestic violence. Each session contains multiple
activities that may include discussions, role-plays, interactive
projects and grounding/self-soothing exercises. Some sessions
utilize guided imagery, or visualization-the goal being to allow
men the opportunity to imagine scenarios that are different from
their own realities and offers them an opportunity to safely
envision different behaviors. What Are the Program Components?
Exploring Trauma includes a reproducible facilitator guide and a
reproducible participant workbook (in both English and Spanish) on
a USB. The facilitator guide contains background information about
trauma and session outlines that are similar to lesson plans. The
six sessions in the program are: Session 1: Welcome and
Introduction to the Subject of Trauma Session 2: Exploring Trauma
Session 3: Thinking, Feeling and Acting Session 4: Beyond Guilt,
Shame, and Anger Session 5: Healthy Relationships Session 6: Love,
Endings, and Certificates
This monograph, written by experts in the field, is devoted to the
molecular analysis of addiction pathways in the brain. It provides
an intensive overview of the fundamentals, state?of?the?art
advances, and major gaps in the cell and molecular biology of drug
addiction within the broader context of neuroscience. Addiction
research is a branch of neuroscience and psychology. The emphasis
in this book is on hard science and the market for it will be found
among research investigators and grad students within the field of
neuroscience. The research presented is not only applicable to the
study of drug abuse and addiction, but has clear implications for
clarifying mechanisms of learning and memory, neuroadaptation,
perception, volitional behavior, motivation, reward, and other
disciplines of neuroscience.
Freedom from addiction is available in the one place that's the
most difficult for an addict to be-the present moment. In Natural
Rest for Addiction, non-duality teacher and addiction specialist
Scott Kiloby offers his Natural Rest program for finding recovery
from substance abuse-and addictions of all kinds-through the
mindful practice of Resting Presence. If you struggle with
alcoholism, drug dependency, or some other form of addiction, you
know all too well the urges and cravings that drive your habit.
Addiction tells you that something is wrong, that you need
something outside of yourself to make you well, something to fill
the sense of deficiency you carry inside. These feelings are often
tied to deep emotional trauma, anxiety, depression, or pain held in
the body that has never fully been acknowledged. But what if you
could learn to relax into awareness and accept the difficult
thoughts, emotions, and sensations that make you feel like you need
to do something-anything-to change your experience? This book will
guide you, step by step, into the natural, open, peaceful awareness
that is available to you at all times. Using the mindfulness-based
Natural Rest program for recovery, you'll learn how to tap into
this present-moment awareness throughout the day, relieving
yourself of worries about the future or past by allowing your
thoughts and feelings to come and go as they are, without grasping
at or trying to control them. You'll also learn about the Living
Inquiries, a process of self-inquiry developed by Scott Kiloby to
target the beliefs, trauma, compulsions, and triggers that keep you
trapped in the cycle of suffering and seeking. At the heart of
addiction is a constant, desperate desire to alter what you're
feeling, to escape from the here and now, to find relief. With
Natural Rest for Addiction, you'll gain a deeper understanding of
the complex issues that underlie addictive behavior and learn how
to find peace, freedom, and well-being in the present, one moment
at a time.
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