Drugs & Addiction - Health Studies Books

1-10 of 21 results in Subjects › Social Sciences › Sociology & Social Policy › Health Studies › Drugs & Addiction - Health Studies

1. 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...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60103-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. 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...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-61010-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
3. 

   Drugs in Sport, 5th Edition

   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...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-55087-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
4. 

   The Politics of Narcotic Drugs: A Survey

   Edited by Julia Buxton

   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....

   October 2010 | 978-1-85743-501-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. 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...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-49104-4 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
6. 

   A History of Drugs: Drugs and Freedom in the Liberal Age

   By Toby Seddon

   Why are some psychoactive substances regarded as ‘dangerous drugs’, to be controlled by the criminal law within a global prohibition regime, whilst others – from alcohol and tobacco, through to those we call ‘medicines’ – are seen and regulated very differently? A History of Drugs traces a...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58960-4 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
7. 

   Youth, Drugs, and Nightlife

   By Geoffrey Hunt, Molly Moloney, Kristin Evans

   Youth, Drugs, and Night Life examines the relationships between the electronic dance scene and drug use for young ravers and clubbers today. Based on over 300 interviews with ravers, DJ’s and promoters, Hunt, Moloney, and Evans examine the different social groupings that make up the scene. The...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-37473-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Handbook of European Welfare Systems

   Edited by Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant

   This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-48275-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
9. 

   Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood: New Perspectives and Agendas

   Edited by Andy Furlong

   The parameters within which young people live their lives have changed radically. Changes in education and the labour market have led to an increased complexity of the youth phase and to an overall protraction in dependency and transitions. Written by leading academics from several countries,...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-44540-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Tobacco Use and Ethnicity

    Learn how ethnic factors affect tobacco use The addiction to smoking is remarkably resistant to intervention, bringing with it a multitude of health issues among users that can at times co-occur with psychiatric disorders. Ethnicity is increasingly recognized as often playing an important role in...

    2008 | 978-0-7890-3800-5 | Paperback (Routledge)