This A-Z encyclopedia provides a broad and evenhanded overview of America's complex relationship with marijuana, examining political, recreational, cultural, medical, and economic aspects of marijuana use both historically and in the present day.
This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.
This work provides an evenhanded and authoritative overview of vaping and its impact on American culture and public health, especially among younger Americans.
A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances- alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates-have played a significant role throughout human history, and explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain and cause addiction.
This book examines the drug dealer in contemporary society from an interdisciplinary perspective and considers the increasingly blurred demarcation between illegitimate and legitimate drug markets.
Drawing on scientific evidence from medicine, psychology, criminology, and sociology, this book explores the veracity of claims about marijuana use and misuse.
An experimental account of one womans quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her lifewhich dares to ask if were really better off without them.
This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.
A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyondBy the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly efficient supercomputer.
Gaming the language of addiction treatmentScripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment.
This handbook provides mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of disordered gambling and shares current evidence-based theories, interventions and strategies to use in clinical practice.
The Annual Review of Addictions and Offender Counseling, Volume IV: Best Practices is the fourth volume in a series of peer-reviewed edited books sponsored by the International Association of Addiction and Offender Counselors (IAAOC), a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA).
Rooted in research and clinical practice, Compulsive Buying examines the drive that compels people to compulsively purchase and hoard their acquisitions.
This important book provides a review of the Minnesota Model of alcoholism treatment, which combines current clinical treatments and the 12-step principles of Alcoholics Anonymous with the goal of abstinence.
This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.
Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.
This book investigates the profound and complex impact of the opioid epidemic on schools in the United States, focusing on diverse aspects such as its history, legislative responses, trends, and implications for students, educators, and schools.
A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.
Technology is more and more present in our lives, which is a clear advance, but also a danger, especially among the youngest people, since they can fall into what is called CyberAddiction.
El Ciberacoso es una modalidad moderna del acoso que puede sufrir cualquier persona, pero especialmente preocupante es la situación cuando se trata de menores.
La tecnología está cada día más presente en nuestras vidas, lo que supone un evidente adelanto, pero también un peligro especialmente entre las personas más jóvenes, ya que pueden caer en lo que se llama CiberAdicción.
Putting forward a new approach to the study of corrections, this book draws together public health and corrections and explores the importance of this nexus.
Der Spieler Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky - Die zentrale Thematik dieses 1866 erstmals erschienenen Romans kreist um zwei Pole: die zerstörerische Leidenschaft zum Spiel und die Qual einer komplizierten Liebesbeziehung.
Jack London: König Alkohol Memoiren eines Trinkers | Neu editierte 2021er Ausgabe, mit erklärenden Fußnoten | Jack London, der weltberühmte Autor von Abenteuerklassikern wie Der Seewolf, Ruf der Wildnis und Wolfsblut, war Alkoholiker und starb im Alter von 40 Jahren an den Folgen seiner Sucht.
In diesem Buch wird zunachst ein Uberblick uber Geschichte, Hintergrunde und Rahmenbedingungen der Substitutionsbehandlung in Deutschland gegeben und darauf eingegangen, inwieweit soziale Probleme opiatabhangiger Personen durch Aufnahme einer Substitutionsbehandlung behoben werden konnen bzw.
This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.
'In rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far-reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.
