1st Edition

Relapse and Addictive Behaviour

Edited By Michael Gossop Copyright 1989
316 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

Mark Twain once remarked that giving up smoking was easy – so easy that he had done it a hundred times. In this observation, he neatly summed up the problem of relapse as the central problem of addiction. Originally published in 1989, in Relapse and Addictive Behaviour , an international group of researchers and clinical workers investigate why people find it so difficult to move away from their... Read more

List of Contributors.  1. Introduction Michael Gossop  Part I  2. Relapse and Alcohol Problems Steven Allsop and Bill Saunders  3. Relapse Following Smoking Cessation: A Critical Review of Current Theory and Research Stephen Sutton  4. Heroin and the Opiates Brendan P. Bradley  5. Relapse and Eating Disorders: The Recurring Illusion Howard Rankin  6. Understanding and Preventing Relapse in Sex Offenders Janice K. Marques and Craig Nelson  7. Relapses from a Gambling Perspective R. Iain F. Brown  8. Relapse Prevention and AIDS Among Intravenous Drug Users Anna Stallard and Nick Heather  Part II  9. Conceptual Issues in the Study of Relapse Saul Shiffman  10. Does the Marlatt Model Underestimate the Importance of Conditioned Craving in the Relapse Process? Nick Heather and Anna Stallard  11. Attitudes and Learning in Addiction and Relapse J. Richard Eiser  12. The End of Optimism: The Prehistory of Relapse Virginia Berridge  13. Relapse: A Critique Bill Saunders and Steven Allsop  14. Relapse Prevention: Future Directions G. Alan Marlatt and Judith R. Gordon.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Professor Michael Gossop worked for more than 35 years in the drug and alcohol treatment services at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals in London. He has been a leading addictions researcher at the National Addiction Centre, King's College London, and at the addiction research centre (SERAF) in Oslo, Norway. He has worked with the World Health Organization and the United Nations. He has published more than 400 articles on drug and alcohol problems.