After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good. With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, Tracey tells her story of transformation from homeless heroin addict to stable mother of three-and the hard work and hard lessons that got her there. Rather than dwelling on the pain of addiction, The Big Fix focuses on her journey of recovery and rebuilding her life, while exposing the failings of the American rehab system and laying out a path for change. Starting with the first step in her recovery, Tracey re-learns how to interact with men, build new friendships, handle money, and rekindle her relationship with her mother, all while staying sober, sharp, and dedicated to her future. A decidedly female story of addiction, The Big Fix describes the unique challenges faced by women caught in the grip of substance abuse, such as the toxic connection between drug addition and prostitution. Tracey's story of hope, hard work, and rehabilitation will inspire anyone who has been affected by substance abuse while offering hope for a better future.

While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs?
In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the subject with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, What Everyone Needs to Know(r). They begin, by defining "drugs," examining how they work in the brain, discussing the nature of addiction, and exploring the damage they do to users. The book moves on to policy, answering questions about legalization, the role of criminal prohibitions, and the relative legal tolerance for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dissect the illicit trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effect of catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationship between drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its effectiveness and the role of public policy, and discuss the beneficial effects of some abusable substances. Finally they move outward to look at the role of drugs in our foreign policy, their relationship to terrorism, and the ugly politics that surround the issue.
Crisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is a handy and up-to-date overview of one of the most pressing topics in today's world.
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An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, BOTTLED explains the perils mums face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to sobriety, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety-a blur of pain and chaos-to her now (in)frequent moments of peace and offers empathy, comic relief and encouragement for mums everywhere.

Bottled tells the story of English football's complicated relationship with booze through the experiences of the players who found themselves in crisis when they could no longer put it down - from George Best and Paul Gascoigne to Tony Adams and Paul Merson, as well as many others who escaped the headlines. Footballers play under intense pressure in the unforgiving glare of the media spotlight. But what do their stories tell us about ourselves? Are some challenges they face specific to a player's lifestyle? With insights from those at the sharp end, here is an examination of footballers in need and the help available from the industry. Untangling the complex web of links between alcohol and the beautiful game, Bottled explores the stories that characterised the origins of many of England's clubs, as churches and breweries vied for the souls of young men. From trashed hotel rooms to the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous via the China Jump club, Bottled navigates the journey from the stars to the gutter and, sometimes, back again.

Der Konsum psychoaktiver Substanzen stellt eine Verhaltensweise dar, die je nach historischem, kulturellem und situationalem Kontext unterschiedlich bewertet wird. In heutigen Gesellschaften kann Drogengebrauch als moralisches Fehlverhalten, als Krankheit, als Folge von Armut und Sozialisationsdefiziten oder als risikobehafteter Lebensstil interpretiert werden. Je nach Interpretation unterliegt Drogenkonsum einem anderen Modus der sozialen Kontrolle, der von strafrechtlichen Regulierungen uber therapeutische Hilfsangebote bis hin zu sozialpadagogischen Interventionskonzepten reicht.
Im Fokus dieser Darstellung steht die Frage, wie sich die verschiedenen Moglichkeiten, das Drogenproblem" gesellschaftlich zu regulieren, im historischen Verlauf herausgebildet und institutionalisiert haben. Gleichzeitig ist sie darauf ausgerichtet, am Beispiel des Drogenkonsums die Beziehungen von Sozialer Arbeit und sozialer Kontrolle sichtbar zu machen."

Viele Platze und Grunanlagen werden abends zu Freiluftkneipen umfunktioniert. Menschen treffen sich dort und trinken zusammen Alkohol. Der Autor beleuchtet die rechtlichen Moeglichkeiten von Behoerden dagegen vorzugehen. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt dabei auf polizeirechtlichen Loesungsansatzen, vor allem dem Erlass von Polizeiverordnungen. Der Autor kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass im oeffentlichen Alkoholkonsum durchaus eine abstrakte Gefahr fur die oeffentliche Sicherheit liegen kann. Strassenrechtlich kann Alkoholkonsum nicht abstrakt-generell untersagt werden. Nur im Einzelfall koennen Behoerden einschreiten. Auch die kommunalrechtlichen Moeglichkeiten sind begrenzt. Abschliessend untersucht der Autor Moeglichkeiten, den Alkoholverkauf zu besonderen Anlassen oder auf Festen einzuschranken.