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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse

Drug Policy and the Public Good (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer, David... Drug Policy and the Public Good (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer, David Foxcroft, Keith Humphreys, …
R2,049 Discovery Miles 20 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in usage, national and global policymakers are turning to addiction science for guidance on how to create evidence-based drug policy. Drug Policy and the Public Good is an objective analytical basis on which to build global drug policies. It presents the accumulated scientific knowledge on drug use in relation to policy development on a national and international level. By also revealing new epidemiological data on the global dimensions of drug misuse, it questions existing regulations and highlights the growing need for evidence-based, realistic, and coordinated drug policy. A critical review of cumulative scientific evidence, Drug Policy and the Public Good discusses four areas of drug policy; primary prevention programs in schools and other settings; supply reduction programs, including legal enforcement and drug interdiction; treatment interventions and harm reduction approaches; and control of the legal market through prescription drug regimes. In addition, it analyses the current state of global drug policy, and advocates improvements in the drafting of public health policy. Drug Policy and the Public Good is a global source of information and inspiration for policymakers involved in public health and social welfare. Presenting new research on illicit and prescription drug use, it is also an essential tool for academics, and a significant contribution to the translation of addiction research into effective drug policy.

Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Ed Day Seminars in Addiction Psychiatry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Ed Day
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Drugs and Rights (Paperback, New): Douglas N. Husak Drugs and Rights (Paperback, New)
Douglas N. Husak
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This important book was the first serious work of philosophy to address the question: Do adults have a moral right to use drugs for recreational purposes? Many critics of the 'war on drugs' denounce law enforcement as counterproductive and ineffective. Douglas Husak argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the moral rights of adults who want to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against such use are incompatible with moral rights. This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the United States today. The author is careful to describe the properties a recreational drug would have to possess before the state would be justified in prohibiting it. Since criminal laws against the use of recreational drugs are justified neither by the harm users cause to themselves nor by the harm users cause to each other, Professor Husak concludes that such laws are, in almost all cases, unjustified.

All About Drugs and Young People - Essential Information and Advice for Parents and Professionals (Paperback): Julian Cohen All About Drugs and Young People - Essential Information and Advice for Parents and Professionals (Paperback)
Julian Cohen
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe. It covers everything from what the effects are and why young people take drugs, to how to negotiate drug rules and ways to prevent and minimise harm. An easy to use section contains factual information about various drugs, covering a description of each drug, street names, a brief history, legal status, availability, extent of use and cost, effects, possible harms, and harm reduction advice. The newest and emerging drugs, such as legal highs, are included, as well as illegal drugs, alcohol, caffeine and tobacco. If you are working with or supporting young people or are a parent or carer, this is the book you need to help you understand drugs and respond positively and effectively to young people's drug use.

The Poetry and Lyrics of Jay Semko (Paperback): Jay Semko The Poetry and Lyrics of Jay Semko (Paperback)
Jay Semko
R376 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creating the American Junkie - Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control (Paperback, Revised): Caroline Jean... Creating the American Junkie - Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control (Paperback, Revised)
Caroline Jean Acker
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatristsand psychologists produced a construction of opiate addicts as deviants with inherently flawed personalities caught in the grip of a dependency from which few would ever escape. Their portrayal of the tough urban addict helped bolster the federal government's policy of drug prohibition and created a social context that made the life of the American heroin addict, or junkie, more, not less, precarious in the wake of Progressive Era reforms. Weaving together the accounts of addicts and researchers, Acker examines how the construction of addiction in the early twentieth century was strongly influenced by the professional concerns of psychiatrists seeking to increase their medical authority; by the disciplinary ambitions of pharmacologists to build a drug development infrastructure; and by the American Medical Association's campaign to reduce prescriptions of opiates and to absolve physicians in private practice from the necessity of treating difficult addicts as patients. In contrast, early sociological studies of heroin addicts formed a basis for criticizing the criminalization of addiction. By 1940, Acker concludes, a particular configuration of ideas about opiate addiction was firmly in place and remained essentially stable until the enormous demographic changes in drug use of the 1960s and 1970s prompted changes in the understanding of addiction-and in public policy.

A Little Book of Drugs - Activities to Explore Drug Issues with Young People (Paperback, 2): Vanessa Rogers A Little Book of Drugs - Activities to Explore Drug Issues with Young People (Paperback, 2)
Vanessa Rogers
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Many teenagers will come into contact with drugs, but do they know all the facts about drugs? What should they do if they feel pressured into taking drugs? Do they know the effects of taking drugs, and what the consequences might be? This resource is packed with activities that inform young people about drugs, encourage them to think and talk about their values and attitudes to drugs, and help them make positive choices. The engaging activities explore different types of drugs and their effects, and issues such as risks, consequences, peer pressure, attitudes to drug-taking, and drugs and the media. This second edition is fully updated and contains many new activities. With fun and imaginative activities ranging from ice-breakers and quizzes to role-play and poster-making, this book is suitable for use with young people aged 13-19, in groups and on-to-one. Teachers, youth workers, drug support workers, youth offending teams and social workers will all find this an invaluable resource.

Substance Use Disorders - A Biopsychosocial Perspective (Hardcover): Perry M. Duncan Substance Use Disorders - A Biopsychosocial Perspective (Hardcover)
Perry M. Duncan
R4,433 R2,685 Discovery Miles 26 850 Save R1,748 (39%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This textbook surveys the current knowledge on substance use disorders (SUD), summarizing scientific evidence from numerous fields. It uses a biopsychosocial framework to integrate the many factors that contribute to addictions, from genetic predispositions, neurological responses caused by drugs, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, personality traits, and developmental conditions to cultural influences. Real-life vignettes and first-person accounts build understanding of the lived experience of addiction. The currently accepted practices for diagnosis and treatment are presented, including the role of 12-step programmes and other mutual-assistance groups. The text also investigates the research methods that form the foundation of evidence-based knowledge. The main body text is augmented by study guideposts such as learning objectives, review exercises, highlighted key terms, and chapter summaries, which enable more efficient comprehension and retention of the book's material.

Interceptors - The Untold Fight Against the Mexican Cartels (Paperback): Matthew Thomas Interceptors - The Untold Fight Against the Mexican Cartels (Paperback)
Matthew Thomas; Foreword by Katie Pavlich
R523 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mescal - The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects: The 'Divine' Plant and Its Psychological Effects... Mescal - The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects: The 'Divine' Plant and Its Psychological Effects (Paperback)
Heinrich Kluver
R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Substance Use and Family Violence (Paperback): Margaret Campe, Kathi Harp, Carrie Oser Substance Use and Family Violence (Paperback)
Margaret Campe, Kathi Harp, Carrie Oser
R1,446 R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Save R389 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Substance Use and Family Violence provides readers with a better understanding of how and why substance use and violent behavior can co-occur and specifically, how the relationship between the two play out across a range of familial relationships. The text focuses on four main domains in which substance use and violence affect families: substance use and interpersonal violence, substance use and intimate partner violence, substance use and child neglect and abuse, and substance use and elder neglect and abuse. Providing both historical context and contemporary evidence, the volume uses peer-reviewed literature, theories, and interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scope of each problem, who it impacts, and effective strategies for both preventing violent behavior and intervening to stop its spread. Substance Use and Family Violence is part of the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence, an interdisciplinary collection of textbooks edited by Claire Renzetti, Ph.D. The titles feature cross-cultural perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and interventions, and timely research on family and gender-based violence.

Drugs of Abuse: The International Scene - Volume I (Hardcover, New Ed): Mangai Natarajan Drugs of Abuse: The International Scene - Volume I (Hardcover, New Ed)
Mangai Natarajan
R6,268 R5,571 Discovery Miles 55 710 Save R697 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Globalization and attendant modernization has increased both the supply and the demand for drugs around the world. Drug abuse is no longer the concern of only the developed world. Countries without histories of drug use, particularly developing countries, are now reporting problems of abuse because they have become transit points for international drug trafficking. Because the problem is now worldwide, a global strategy is needed for identifying, analyzing and developing strategies to deal with drug abuse and the associated problems for health and safety. This volume reviews the international status of drug abuse. Specific topics covered include drug abuse in the developing world, emerging drugs and poly drug use; gateway drugs, cultural views of drug use and state of the art methodologies employed in research on drug abuse.

Raising Lazarus - Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis (Hardcover): Beth Macy Raising Lazarus - Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis (Hardcover)
Beth Macy
R914 R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Save R65 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
On Drugs (Paperback, New Ed): David Lenson On Drugs (Paperback, New Ed)
David Lenson
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In a searing critique of the War on Drugs and other attempts to eradicate "getting high," Lenson ventures outside the conventional genres of drug writing and looks at the drug debate from a lost, and often forbidden, point of view: the user's. Walking a fine line between the antidrug hysteria prevalent in our culture and an uncritical advocacy of drug use, he describes in provocative detail the experiences and dynamics of drugs of pleasure and desire. "Drug epicurean David Lenson claims the 'Just Say No' campaign of the Reagan years was an attempt to explicitly end rational discourse on the subject. The man's own whacked-out but brilliant 'discourse, ' On Drugs makes philosophical points about narcotics that also apply to java and hooch. Lenson argues that once all mood-altering substances are eliminated, sobriety becomes a meaningless term." --Voice Literary Supplement "On Drugs is heterodox and iconoclastic to the core."--Boston Phoenix "In the national debate and reevaluation of attitudes toward drugs, this is a different kind of contribution, one that is speculative, discursive, and visionary." --Library Journal "Lenson's magnificent book is a perceptive mapping of the rippling waves of undiscovered solar systems within our brain. It will comfort the fearful and guide the unprepared. A classic!" --Timothy Leary "Lenson analyzes our culture's love-hate relationship with mood-altering substances from the user's point of view in On Drugs. He writes about the differences between 'drugs of desire' (mainly cocaine, crack, and speed) and 'drugs of pleasure' (mainly marijuana and hallucinogens. The former he sees as reflecting the main ideology of Western culture--consumerism--in that frequent users tend to fixate on acquiring more to the exclusion of everything else, while the latter tend to interdict the consumerist mind-set by letting users savor everyday activities and objects already at hand." --Utne Reader "The best work I've read on drugs comes from outside the cultural studies-loop. In his remarkable On Drugs, David Lenson, who teaches comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, uses a phenomenological approach to describe the effects of various drugs. What does it feel like to be high on pot, coke, LSD? What, if anything, is to be gained from them? What are the costs? What attracts individuals to different drugs? One of Lenson's theses, brilliant and controversial, is that some kinds of drugs deliver us from the consumer world view into realms of contemplation--and are officially despised in part for doing so. What the guardians of official culture cannot tolerate, Lenson suggests, is any form of consciousnes that rises above getting and spending. What are we to do about the drug crisis? Lenson's advice is invaluable: Throw words at it, he says, lots of words. We need to use the cultural-studies movement to break the intellectual and classroom silence on drugs. We need to re-educate ourselves about drugs, and in so doing help educate our students." --Chronicle of Higher Education David Lenson is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a rock and blues musician who has played saxophone with John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells.

Pills, Powder, and Smoke - inside the bloody War on Drugs (Paperback): Antony Loewenstein Pills, Powder, and Smoke - inside the bloody War on Drugs (Paperback)
Antony Loewenstein 1
R524 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different parts of the world, the backing of dictatorships, and surging drug addiction globally. And now the Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces against any softening of the conflict. Pills, Powder, and Smoke investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA agents, and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines, and Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war, why it's so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it. In reporting on the frontlines across the globe - from the streets of London's King's Cross to the killing fields of Central America to major cocaine transit routes in West Africa - Loewenstein reveals how the War on Drugs has become the most deadly war in modern times.

The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): George E. Vaillant The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
George E. Vaillant
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When "The Natural History of Alcoholism" was first published in 1983, it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition of Alcoholic Anonymous's Big Book. George Vaillant took on the crucial questions of whether alcoholism is a symptom or a disease, whether it is progressive, whether alcoholics differ from others before the onset of their alcoholism, and whether alcoholics can safely drink. Based on an evaluation of more than 600 individuals followed for over forty years, Vaillant's monumental study offered new and authoritative answers to all of these questions.

In this updated version of his classic book Vaillant returns to the same subjects with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up. Alcoholics who had been studied to age 50 in the earlier book have now reached age 65 and beyond, and Vaillant reassesses what we know about alcoholism in light of both their experiences and the many new studies of the disease by other researchers. The result is a sharper focus on the nature and course of this devastating disorder as well as a sounder foundation for the assessment of various treatments.

Syringe Exchange Programs and the Opioid Epidemic - Government and Nonprofit Practices and Policies (Paperback): Joaquin Jay... Syringe Exchange Programs and the Opioid Epidemic - Government and Nonprofit Practices and Policies (Paperback)
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Mickey P. Mcgee
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Syringe exchange programs and safe injection services are outside-the-box interventions increasingly being used by governments, nonprofits and citizens to address dire issues percolating in tandem with America's burgeoning opioid epidemic. People who inject drugs (PWID)-almost a million Americans annually-commonly use painkillers such as heroin and fentanyl, as well as methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates and cocaine. Yet the users themselves are often obscured or marginalized by the bigger picture. This collection of essays covers policies and practices aimed at preventing both opioid-related deaths and related infections of hepatitis and HIV.

Single Handed (Paperback): Joseph M Kress Single Handed (Paperback)
Joseph M Kress
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shorty's Poems - from the streets of Melville, Johannesburg (Paperback): Thabile Gloria Mtshali Shorty's Poems - from the streets of Melville, Johannesburg (Paperback)
Thabile Gloria Mtshali
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Outlaw Tales of the Superstition Mountains (Paperback): Arlin Troutt Outlaw Tales of the Superstition Mountains (Paperback)
Arlin Troutt
R454 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rethinking Substance Abuse - What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It (Hardcover): William R. Miller, Kathleen M... Rethinking Substance Abuse - What the Science Shows, and What We Should Do about It (Hardcover)
William R. Miller, Kathleen M Carroll
R1,839 Discovery Miles 18 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While knowledge on substance abuse and addictions is expanding rapidly, clinical practice still lags behind. This state-of-the-art book brings together leading experts to describe what treatment and prevention would look like if it were based on the best science available. The volume incorporates developmental, neurobiological, genetic, behavioral, and social-environmental perspectives. Tightly edited chapters summarize current thinking on the nature and causes of alcohol and other drug problems; discuss what works at the individual, family, and societal levels; and offer robust principles for developing more effective, humane treatments and services.

Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran - A Women's Clinic (Paperback): Dr Kate Dolan Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran - A Women's Clinic (Paperback)
Dr Kate Dolan
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Autobiography - Seasoned by Stress (Paperback): Marco Toral My Autobiography - Seasoned by Stress (Paperback)
Marco Toral
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interdependency (Paperback): Maria Ciccone-Fiorentino Interdependency (Paperback)
Maria Ciccone-Fiorentino; Illustrated by Jonathan Fiorentino
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Entry Wounds - A Supernatural Thriller (Paperback): Brandon McNulty Entry Wounds - A Supernatural Thriller (Paperback)
Brandon McNulty
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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