Principles of Addictions and the Law: Applications in Forensic, Mental Health, and Medical Practice Book

EBook Description: The book includes an examination of sources of law important to addiction and its treatment. The foundations for forensic work in professional legal testimony is explored (e.g., legal system, case law precedent, statutes governing addictions, civil and criminal procedures). The science of addiction is featured including the biology of addiction, addiction as a brain disease, responsibility vs. loss of control, development of addictions, and the role of genetics and environment. Drug testing, its uses with forensic populations, what the tests show and do not show, controversies in using tests in the general population also receives extensive treatment. Addiction and mental illness in forensic populations is highlighted for addiction treatment and continuing care. Case studies and landmark cases illustrate the role of alcohol, drug use, and addictions in legal decisions.

Addiction Research Methods is a comprehensive handbook for health professionals, policy-makers and researchers working and training in the field of addiction.
The book provides a clear, comprehensive and practical guide to research design, methods and analysis within the context of the field of alcohol and other drugs. The reader is introduced to fundamental principles and key issues; and is orientated to available sources of information and key literature.

The Neurobiology of Addiction Book

Explore the subtle chemical and biological changes that drugs produce in the brain and body to cause the physical and emotional dependence characteristic of addiction. Ages 12+
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The Making of Addiction: The 'use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-century Britain (The History of Medicine in Context) Book

What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society, the idea of drug addiction is a fixed and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that shaped the creation and the various interpretations of addiction as a disease, and of addiction to opiates in particular. It delves into the treatments, regimes, and prejudices that surrounded the condition, a newly emerging pathological entity and a form of 'moral insanity' during the nineteenth century. The source material for this book is rich and surprising. Letters and diaries provide the most moving material, detailing personal struggles with addiction and the trials of those who cared and despaired.

Drug Abuse Sourcebook, Third Edition Book

The third updated edition of Drug Abuse Sourcebook is a fine reference for college-level health collections, documenting the abuse of illegal substances and prescription medicines alike. Facts about commonly abused drugs and causes of addiction blend medical with social issues while an invaluable section on strategies that work for prevention make this a top reference.

Transitions Through Homelessness: Lives on the Edge Book

This title is an innovative new study of transitions through homelessness. It is one of the first studies to explore the experience of people who have made a transition out of homelessness. It critiques how welfare services respond to and may exacerbate homelessness. It also fills a recognised gap in homelessness theory, focus on understanding individual motivating factors. It contextualises homelessness within current political and social debates.Following a group of people as they make the transition from homeless to 'housed', this book presents a new perspective on homelessness, the individual factors associated with it such as addiction, mental illness and traumatic life histories, and how welfare and poverty interact with these conditions.

Treating Drug Problems Book

Part of the new Treating Addictions series, Treating Drug Problems is full of practical information on assessing, diagnosing, and treating drug problems, and represents an invaluable tool for anyone who works with clients experiencing drug dependence or addiction. The popular series format includes assessment scales; tables, checklists, and diagrams; features such as "Dos and Don'ts" and "Important Things to Remember"; problem-solving scenarios; "Self-Improvement Techniques"; and suggested resources, including an annotated bibliography and lists of contacts such as self-help groups, residential and outpatient treatment programs, support groups, and websites.

Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases: A Neurobiological View Book

Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 3642108555, 7302211086, 3642108571 | 400 pages | PDF | 6,2 MB
Written in modern scientific language, "Acupuncture Therapy for Neurological Diseases:A Neurobiological View" discusses current research, applying multiple neuroscience approaches, on the effect of acupuncture on neurological diseases and the underlying mechanisms. Apart from basic principles of acupuncture, topics include acupuncture analgesia, acupuncture-drug balanced anesthesia, acute and chronic body pain, stroke, cardiac diseases, hypertension, hypotension, epilepsy, neuroimmuno suppression, female infertility, menopausal & perimenopausal syndrome, smoking, depression, and drug addiction. Each chapter is written by experts in the field. This unique book provides a broad perspective on the principles of acupuncture for acupuncture researchers and neuroscientists. It summarizes clinical applications of various acupoints and optimal conditions in the treatment of neurological diseases. For a medical student, this book is a modern course in ancient Traditional Chinese Medicine, especially acupuncture.

Ray Charles: Man and Music Updated Edition Book

There are only a few legendary singers who have developed mass audiences while pursuing their own artistic visions: Sinatra is one; Ella Fitzgerald another. Ray Charles undoubtedly belongs in this pantheon of major musical stars.
Ray Charles: Man and Music begins with Charles�s impoverished childhood in Greenville, Florida, where tragedy struck early when the young Charles went blind at age 6 and was orphaned at age 14. Driven by his enormous talent and determination, Charles landed work playing some of the toughest juke joints in the state, fought heroin addiction, and finally landed a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Unlike other R&B singers, Charles took control of his career from its earliest days, moving on from his gospel-soul stylings of the mid-�50s to break through musical barriers, recording two country albums in the late �50s (at a time when the black presence in country music was barely felt), pure jazz, and then the powerful pop hits of the �60s. Famed music journalist Michael Lydon - a founding editor of Rolling Stone - is uniquely qualified to document Charles�s career, having interviewed Charles and followed the star�s performances since the 1960s.

The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-century American WestDebate Book

America's current "war on drugs" is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium soon spread and this growing use was deemed a threat to the nation's entrepreneurial spirit and to its growing mportance as a world economic and military power.

Napoleon: A Biography Book

After a visit to Corsica, Rousseau said, "I have a hunch that one day this little island will astonish Europe." Corsica has. It was born in 1769, was Napoleon Bonaparte to shake the continent, precipitation thousands of books about him since. This latest, the British historian and University of Strathclyde (UK) Professor of Literature McLynn (Villa and Zapata, The Jacobites), is a full and convincing a volume life. McLynn study, but for his addiction to clich� and repetition, and his effort was based on both Freud and Jung is a poisoned one of the best of the new breed (since 1978 the discovery of arsenic Bonaparte made obsolete earlier volumes). No hagiographer McLynn is difficult both on Napoleon as a general and a statesman, his mistakes and faults in its open "sale" marshals, insidious predatory siblings administrative elite, and surprisingly clean. Regardless, people, if he needed their loyalty to Napoleon did not embody this ambition tempered by idealism, and has McLynn "gullible" for something earlier biographers see in him a familiar French grasping for "size" and "Fame", on an apparent lower Height of Louis XIV to de Gaulle. The difference is McLynn, Napoleon, that his dreams were really

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