Understanding & working with substance misusers

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Explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice.

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Full title :Understanding & working with substance misusers / Aaron Pycroft.

Summary

Explores the complex nature of addiction and the challenges involved in responding effectively through policy and practice.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE
Place of Publication:Los Angeles
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 168 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781446248218, 1446248216, 9781446251331, 1446251330
oclc:ocn758384500
LC Classification:HV4998
Dewey Decimal:362.29

Drugs and drug users in context -- The policy context and legal framework -- From disease to dependency syndrome -- Harm reduction approaches -- The psychological revolution -- The genetic revolution and disease theory revisited -- Interventions and equivocal outcomes -- Complex adaptive systems : a new paradigm for working with addiction? -- Pulling it all together : an extended case study.

Subjects

Drug Users -- psychology Polytoxicomanie Polytoxicomanie -- Traitement PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology SELF-HELP -- Substance Abuse & Addictio… Substance Abuse Substance abuse -- Treatment Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy