Health Conditions Books

New and Published Books

1. Addiction and Recovery in the UK

   Edited by Jeffrey Roth, David Best

   Addiction and Recovery in the UK captures the essence of the emerging addictions recovery movement and in particular the emerging evidence base that had been gathered around the umbrella of the Recovery Academy UK. The Recovery Academy was established with the aim of creating a forum for people in...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   Published July 5th 2011 by Routledge
3. Exercise and Chronic Disease

   An Evidence-Based Approach

   Edited by John Saxton

   It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions. Exercise and Chronic Disease: An Evidence-Based Approach offers the most...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Drugs, Crime and Public Health

   The Political Economy of Drug Policy

   By Alex Stevens

   Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach – centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other countries – it discusses theoretical perspectives and...

   Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Illegal Leisure Revisited

   Changing Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use in Adolescents and Young Adults

   By Judith Aldridge, Fiona Measham, Lisa Williams

   Series: Adolescence and Society

   This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ‘recreational’ drug...

   Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Narcotic Drugs

   A Survey

   Edited by Julia Buxton

   Series: Europa Politics of ... series

   The Politics of Narcotic Drugs brings together leading experts on the drugs trade to provide an accessible yet detailed analysis of the multiple challenges that the contemporary trade in narcotic drugs and its prohibition pose, from the local to the international community....

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
7. Recovery from Addiction in Communal Living Settings

   The Oxford House Model

   Edited by Leonard Jason, Joseph R Ferrari

   Research on treatment outcome for addictive disorders indicates that a variety of interventions are effective. However, the progress clients make in treatment frequently is undermined by the lack of an alcohol and drug free living environment supporting sustained recovery. This book suggests...

   Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge
8. Women, Children, and Addiction

   Edited by Loretta Finnegan, Stephen Kandall

   This proposed book draws on the expertise of 35 experts in the field of Addiction Medicine to provide the reader with a current and comprehensive view of addiction as related to women, pregnancy, newborns, infants and children. The volume begins by placing current attitudes towards addicted women...

   Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
9. Drugs in Sport

   5th Edition

   By David R. Mottram

   Edited by David R. Mottram

   Drug use and abuse is perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today. However, in the eye of the storm of public and press opinion and with medals and morals at stake, it can be difficult to gain a clear perspective on this complex issue. Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
10. The End of the Obesity Epidemic

    By Michael Gard

    Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised. In this provocative follow up to his classic work of obesity scepticism, The Obesity...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge