Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and loss.

As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem.

AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AIDS policy.

As news headlines report staggering numbers of people infected with HIV or AIDS across the globe and as stereotypes of typical AIDS patients become less and less specific to particular sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds, the AIDS pandemic shows little sign of relenting.

Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality.

Drug addiction is a brain disease--that's the modern view and it is fully expressed in this up-to-date book.

Based on interviews with more than a thousand Navajo Indian men and women, this book examines the associations between childhood experiences and behavior and the development of alcohol dependence in adulthood.

Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases).

Obesity is reaching alarming proportions.

For gay men, the demands of the AIDS epidemic are enormous and unrelenting.

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States.

In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer.

Medical Sociology is now an established subdiscipline in both medicine and sociology.

Addiction is the United States' most pervasive and damaging public health problem, yet most Americans receive care that results in a failure rate that is both astronomically high and shielded from public view.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists, updated for 2021.

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists--updated with everything they need to know in 2021!

The essential work in HIV for providers and pharmacists--updated with everything they need to know in 2021!

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

The current worldwide AIDS crisis is about 20 years old, but the disease itself is much older.

We live in an age when the cigarette industry is under almost constant attack.

The proliferation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry has had profound implications for American health policy, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy.

The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life.

At least one of every three Americans has used an illicit drug.

Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world.

Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world.

Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women.

Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women.

Alcohol has always been an issue in public health but it is currently assuming increasing importance as a cause of disease and premature death worldwide.

Alcohol has always been an issue in public health but it is currently assuming increasing importance as a cause of disease and premature death worldwide.

Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago.

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh!

'I took it: - and in an hour, oh!

In recent years, British drug policy has undergone a transformation: tackling 'drug-driven' crime through criminal justice interventions has arguably become the central priority and focus.

In recent years, British drug policy has undergone a transformation: tackling 'drug-driven' crime through criminal justice interventions has arguably become the central priority and focus.

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.

Recreational drug use is a world-wide phenomenon.

Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases.

People with mental illness commonly describe the stigma and discrimination they face as being worse than their main condition.

Cannabis, marijuana, pot, ganja - it goes by many names -- is by far the most widely used illegal substance, and accounts for more arrests than any other drug.

Recreational drug use is a world-wide phenomenon.

The Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health returns for a third edition, fully updated to encompass the changes in the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, British HIV Association, and Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare guidelines and recommendations.

The Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV, and Sexual Health returns for a third edition, fully updated to encompass the changes in the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, British HIV Association, and Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare guidelines and recommendations.