Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV.

Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women.

Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women.

Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A.

Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A.

Voted Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice.

For those serving as a caregiver for a loved one, the authors of this down-to-earth, encouraging book can help you make the most of the experience without losing yourself in the process.

Walk in Dry Places is a daily reader for those who seek simplicity and assuredness in their Twelve Step program.

Abandoned by his mother, abused by his dad, bullied at school .

'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMESA history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy young people on a spree.

'There is only heroin, there is only Candy, the three of us adrift on the endless sea of love.

Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers?

Journalist Jenny Valentish takes a gendered look at drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way.

EXTRAORDINARY MEMOIR OF A LIFE AND LOVE TORN APART BY DEMENTIAWhen her husband Tony was diagnosed with Alzheimer s in 2004, Steph Booth had to say goodbye to life as she knew it.

Healing-Centred Design is a transformation framework, rooted in trauma-informed practice.

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**'This book is both life-enhancing and company-saving' - Sir Anthony Seldon, author, educator and cofounder of Action for HappinessHow much is alcohol costing your company?

"Dile No: Manual de Prevención de Adicciones", escrito por Alejandro Javier Otero, es una guía esencial que aborda con claridad y profundidad el complejo tema de las adicciones.

The brain regions and neuronal processes that underlie addiction extensively overlap with those needed for cognitive functions, including learning, memory, and reasoning.

The bestselling guide to overcoming addiction from comedian Russell Brand.

Winner of the New England Book Award for FictionFrom Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a mesmerising novel about the complexity and power of familial love.

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*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020**Winner of non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards*An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I Am.

The utterly inspiring and true story of an Ethiopian woman and the AIDS orphanage she built'More than a vivid, readable account of individual courage in the face of apparently overwhelming odds, this is an important book' The Times'Unforgettable .

**BBC DOCUMENTARY CONFESSIONS OF A BRAIN SURGEON IS OUT NOW**From the No.

Neuauflage von Anna Naves erstem Gedichtband "umrissen // outlined".

Wie in "Kutusows Nachtwache" ("Der Plot H.

TWO BROTHERS: Cicero Grimes - freelance psychiatrist and one-man detox unit in America's white trash Deep South; and Luther Grimes - bad news Vietnam veteran and smack dealer.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROne of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable.

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Surviving AIDS involves making all the right movesand even then, your life is at risk.

Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before?

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate .

Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.

Should we legalize marijuana?

Should we legalize marijuana?

Manchester approaching the Millennium is a violent city which is succumbing to the deadly delights of Warp, a designer hallucinogenic.

La ciencia perdida es un compendio de articulos que reune a un grupo de especialistas, cientificos, ensayistas y estudiosos del tema para contar, con todo detalle y datos duros, las omisiones y los errores cometidos en la administracion lopezobradorista sobre el imprescindible impulso a la ciencia.

Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX, antes del uso extendido de la penicilina en Argentina, los padecimientos venéreos se constituyeron como un problema público, cuya existencia fue considerada inaceptable.

With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education.

With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education.