Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

Addictions have increased markedly in contemporary societies over the past decades.

Addictions have increased markedly in contemporary societies over the past decades.

The differences between alcohol, food, gambling, and tobacco as consumer products are obvious.

The differences between alcohol, food, gambling, and tobacco as consumer products are obvious.

The multifaceted nature of harmful substance use and gambling requires interdisciplinary analysis to assess the underlying causes.

The multifaceted nature of harmful substance use and gambling requires interdisciplinary analysis to assess the underlying causes.

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies.

Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies.

The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them.

The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them.

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death.

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being outlines an innovative and fascinating new framework for understanding the harm that addictive substances and behaviours can cause.

Impact of Addictive Substances and Behaviours on Individual and Societal Well-being outlines an innovative and fascinating new framework for understanding the harm that addictive substances and behaviours can cause.

Why is governance of addiction so difficult?

Why is governance of addiction so difficult?

Social Work and Science in the 21st Century enhances the inclusion of natural science concepts and knowledge into social work education and practice.

Social Work and Science in the 21st Century enhances the inclusion of natural science concepts and knowledge into social work education and practice.

Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life?

Who gets to decide what it means to live a healthy lifestyle, and how important a healthy lifestyle is to a good life?

A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIVStructural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influencing health behaviors -- are the most universal and cost-effective tool in preventing new incidences of HIV.

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases.

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases.

Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid.

Even among mental health clinicians, the communications of individuals experiencing psychosis have historically been considered mysterious, bizarre, and invalid.

Completely updated for 2017, Fundamentals of HIV Medicine is a comprehensive clinical care publication for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Completely updated for 2017, Fundamentals of HIV Medicine is a comprehensive clinical care publication for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

A COMPREHENSIVE NEW REFERENCE WORK ON STRUCTURAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HIVStructural interventions -- changes to environment aimed at influencing health behaviors -- are the most universal and cost-effective tool in preventing new incidences of HIV.

Despite the stereotype of older adults primarily abusing alcohol, clinical practice insights indicate that the baby-boom generation frequently abuses the same substances as younger adults-including alcohol, benzodiazepines/z-drugs, cannabis, opioids, tobacco (nicotine), and neurostimulants.

Despite the stereotype of older adults primarily abusing alcohol, clinical practice insights indicate that the baby-boom generation frequently abuses the same substances as younger adults-including alcohol, benzodiazepines/z-drugs, cannabis, opioids, tobacco (nicotine), and neurostimulants.

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.

What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States?

What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States?

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy.

Drawing on never before used archival materials, Replacing the Dead exposes the history of Soviet and Russian abortion policy.

There is a clear and pressing need for health professionals, including social workers, to be trained in evidence-based practices (EBPs) in the area of substance use disorders (SUD).

There is a clear and pressing need for health professionals, including social workers, to be trained in evidence-based practices (EBPs) in the area of substance use disorders (SUD).

Emerging Adults and Substance Use Disorder Treatment addresses how a societal shift in the timing of developmental tasks affects treatment outcomes for substance use disorders, which are among the most highly prevalent and costly mental health problems in the United States.

This book serves as a vital resource for clinicians, therapists, and individuals aiming to integrate their psychedelic experiences through the transformative practice of Art Therapy.

Living with HIV can be stressful, which can affect both your emotional and physical well-being.

More than simple cases of dieting gone awry, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are among the most fatal of mental illnesses, responsible for more deaths each year than any other psychiatric disorder.

Millions of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness also suffer from an equally powerful substance use disorder.

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.

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

Today, AIDS has been indelibly etched in our consciousness.

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

Millions of alcoholics and addicts recover through spirituality.