Living with DrugsNow in its sixth edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new edition to take account of new laws and practices that have come in to place since the previous edition, published in 2000. Written in an accessible style and providing a balanced perspective, the book is ideal for non-specialists in training, such as student nurses and social workers and for anyone with an interest in this complex, ever-present and emotive issue. |
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... increased greatly during the past 25 years. Patterns of heroin use have also changed. At one time, heroin was taken ... increases in heroin problems which have caused serious imbalances and stresses within the social, political and ...
... increased greatly during the past 25 years. Patterns of heroin use have also changed. At one time, heroin was taken ... increases in heroin problems which have caused serious imbalances and stresses within the social, political and ...
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... increase in the use of crack cocaine and its associated problems has produced concern (at times verging upon hysteria). The development of crack cocaine use in the UK and in other European countries has taken a different path from that ...
... increase in the use of crack cocaine and its associated problems has produced concern (at times verging upon hysteria). The development of crack cocaine use in the UK and in other European countries has taken a different path from that ...
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... increasing prison populations of those countries. The US now has a prison population of more than one million people, and the number of people imprisoned in the UK every year increased from about 20,000 in 1950 to 40,000 in 1970, then ...
... increasing prison populations of those countries. The US now has a prison population of more than one million people, and the number of people imprisoned in the UK every year increased from about 20,000 in 1950 to 40,000 in 1970, then ...
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... increase in the numbers of people who were injecting drugs just before the threat of HIV was identified. This led to ... increase in drug injection problems in several of the post-Soviet countries. Russia, for example, is now estimated ...
... increase in the numbers of people who were injecting drugs just before the threat of HIV was identified. This led to ... increase in drug injection problems in several of the post-Soviet countries. Russia, for example, is now estimated ...
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... increased awareness that it is both acceptable and desirable to reduce the harm that drug users may suffer as a result of their drug taking. Concern about AIDS has also increased political willingness to provide money to support drug ...
... increased awareness that it is both acceptable and desirable to reduce the harm that drug users may suffer as a result of their drug taking. Concern about AIDS has also increased political willingness to provide money to support drug ...
Contents
The Social Context | |
Chemical Comforts | |
Alcohol | |
Cannabis | |
The Hallucinogens | |
Archetypal Drugs of Abuse | |
The Control of Drugs | |
Junkie Myths | |
Doors in the Wall | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |
Tobacco | |
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