McKeganey / Mckeganey A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-31923-4
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Professional Keywords

If you are looking for an incisive and highly readable account of current research and debates in the field of drugs and substance misuse, then this is the book for you.   Written by a leading researcher and commentator, the A-Z of Substance Misuse and Drug Addiction succinctly encapsulates the key ideas in policy and practice which dominate the addictions field. Expertly organised into just over 70 entries, the book offers numerous cross-references to help you steer a path between connecting ideas. An impressive range of contemporary references accompany the entries, enabling you to dig deeper into the extensive multidisciplinary literature.   International in scope and covering legal and illegal drugs, this is an ideal gateway text and companion for students, trainees, practitioners and researchers studying or working in the substance misuse and addictions fields.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKeganey, N.

Mckeganey, Neil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Addiction.- 2. Alcohol.- 3. Brief Interventions.- 4. Cannabis.- 5. Celebrity Drug Use.- 6. Chronic Relapsing Condition.- 7. Classification of Drugs.- 8. Community Sentences.- 9. Contingency Management.- 10. Contraception.- 11. Corruption.- 12. Crime.- 13. Death.- 14. Decriminalisation.- 15. Doctors.- 16. Driving and Drugs.- 17. Dual Diagnosis.- 18. Education.- 19. Employment.- 20. Enforcement.- 21. European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.- 22. Evidence.- 23. Family.- 24. Gateway Thesis.- 25. Harm Reduction.- 26. Hepatitis C.- 27. Heroin.- 28. HIV.- 29. Identity.- 30. Injecting.- 31. International Treaties.- 32. Learning to Become a Marihuana User.- 33. Legal Highs.- 34. Legislation.- 35. Maturing Out.- 36. Media.- 37. Methadone.- 38. Morality.- 39. Motivational Interviewing.- 40. Naloxone.- 41. Normalization.- 42. Overdose.- 43. Parental Drug Use.- 44. Police.- 45. Politics.- 46. Prescribing.- 47. Prevalence.- 48. Prevention.- 49. Prison.- 50. Project Match.- 51. Prostitution.- 52. Rapid Assessment.- 53. Recovery.- 54. Rehabilitation.- 55. Relapse.- 56. Religion.- 57. Research.- 58. Residential rehabilitation.- 59. Risk Factors.- 60. Safe Injecting Centres.- 61. Set and Setting.- 62. Spontaneous Remission.- 63. Stages of Change.- 64. Stigma.- 65. Strategies, drug.- 66. Suicide.- 67. Testing.- 68. Therapeutic Communities.- 69. Tobacco.- 70. Treatment.- 71. Twelve Step Programmes.- 72. UKATT.- 73. User Organizations.- 74. Zero Tolerance.

Über Autor(innen)

Neil McKeganey is Professor of Drug Misuse Research at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow, UK, which he set up 1994. It is now one of the leading UK research centres focussed on illegal drugs. He has written widely on this subjects encompassing both academic and practitioner audiences. Neil has acted in an advisory role for a number of government departments and international organisations, including the World Health Organization, the UK Home Office, the US Department of Justice the Scottish Executive.