Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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

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

Should we legalize marijuana?

Should we legalize marijuana?

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.

Few resources exist for those interested in developing their professional competence vis-a-vis ethics in forensic psychology, with the most recent text being published more than a decade ago.

Tens of millions of people around the world live with chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it.

Tens of millions of people around the world live with chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it.

Correctional psychiatry has received increasing recognition as an area of practice with unique skills and knowledge.

The first volume in the "e;What Do I Do Now?

The first volume in the "e;What Do I Do Now?

"e;Responsible gambling"e; refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms.

"e;Responsible gambling"e; refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced by gambling regulators, policymakers, and industry operators to reduce gambling-related harms.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing.

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing.

Prescription, illicit, and recreational drugs touch all of our lives yet a basic understanding of these chemicals is largely absent among Americans.

Prescription, illicit, and recreational drugs touch all of our lives yet a basic understanding of these chemicals is largely absent among Americans.

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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.

'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance .

A TELEGRAPH AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Impressive .

High Price by Carl Hart is a groundbreaking work on neuroscience and addictionAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team.

A true story of madness, addiction, and a sister's quest for her lost brotherWhen Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike - fourteen years her senior - started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.

Make 2020 the year you quit the cigarettes for good with this ground-breaking book ________Allen Carr will help you break addiction for ever in this fully updated edition of The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently.

Be inspired by Allen Carr's life story of how he quit his 100-a-day habit, and his quest to cure the world of smoking.

Cocaine is big business and getting bigger.

In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor.

In 1993, Helen Epstein, a scientist working with a biotechnology company searching for an AIDS vaccine, moved to Uganda, where she witnessed first-hand the suffering caused by the HIV virus.

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind.

Fluorine and Health presents a critical multidisciplinary overview on the contribution of fluorinated compounds to resolve the important global issue of medicinal monitoring and health care.

This book critiques the use of psychiatric labelling and psychiatric narratives in everyday areas of institutional and social life across the globe.

This book urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental illness beyond the diagnoses that specifically target gender and sexual dissidence.

Nearly 370 million people in China smoke; about one-third of all smokers in the world are in China; and about 1.

Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health is a directory of the most promising and proven effective sexual education and prevention programs in the United States.

A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs.

In light of the novel corona virus outbreak in December 2019 and its subsequent impact on entire world as a global pandemic, the book attempts to provide integrated risk assessment on Covid -19 like pandemics, as well as to understand the societal, environment and economic impact of the outbreak in various sectors of development.

The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan.

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book offers an international perspective of philosophical, conceptual and praxis-oriented issues that impinge on achieving education for all students.

This book follows a physically disabled researcher's journey from stigmatized embodiment on her way to creating accessible storytelling performances.

The book takes as its premise the argument that diverse learner groups are a fact of demographic change that should be considered foundational in the preparation of teachers rather than be problematized as a challenge.

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books.

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine.

HIV/AIDS: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants provides comprehensive coverage of oxidative stress in HIV/AIDS, focusing on both the pathological process around molecular and cellular metabolism and the complications that can arise due to nutritional imbalance.

Linked by Blood: Hemophilia and AIDS recounts the factors responsible for the widespread infection of people with hemophilia by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-contaminated blood and offers a prescription for addressing the challenges of future viral epidemics.

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment.