Drug Dependence Current Problems and Issues
Drug dependence-according to the 1969 W orId Health Organization definition-is 'A state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characte rized by behavioural and other responses that always include a com pulsion to take the dr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1977, 1977
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Nature, Aetiology, Epidemiology
- 1 Alcohol and Drug Misuse Treatment: Problems and Issues
- 2 The Nature of Addiction
- 3 Vicious Circles in Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
- 4 The Epidemiology of Drug abuse and Drug abuse Rehabilitation
- 5 The Interaction Between Alcohol and Other Forms of Drug Taking
- II: Medical Complications
- 6 The Medical Complications of Drug abuse
- III: Treatment
- 7 Psychotherapy of Drug Dependents and Alcoholics
- 8 New and Innovative Techniques in the Treatment of Drug abuse
- 9 A Therapeutic Community for Dependent Individuals (‘Addicts’) in Prison
- IV: Prevention
- 10 Social Policy and the Prevention of Drug Abuse: Perspective on the Unimodal Approach
- 11 An Enforcement—Prevention Perspective on Drug abuse
- V: The Laboratory’s Contribution
- 12 Detection and Measurement of Drugs in Biological Fluids: Their Relevance to the Problem of Drug Abuse