Drugs in Perspective: A Personalized Look at Substance Use and Abuse

By Richard Fields

Book Overview

This text emphsasizes the human cost of the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. It covers intervention, prevention, and treatment of drug addiction, with an emphasis on the family as the arena in which drug abuse takes place, whilst exploring the causes and treatment of drug abuse in society. There is a structured perspective on the use and abuse of drugs provided by exploring the dynamics and impact of dysfunctional or imbalanced family systems on the individual drug user. There is also a focus on the factors surrounding an individual's decision to use drugs, and the impact of that decision on the family and community.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0697294250
• ISBN13: 9780697294258
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: William C Brown Pub
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 7.8" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent source

This is an excellent and comprehensive book for people with little knowledge of alcohol/drug addiction, as well as for those working in the field who would benefit by its categorized references. This book offers a clear-cut understanding of addicitons, their characteristics and symptoms short and long-term, and presents tables and case studies that are helpful to any level of reader.

Drugs in Perspective Textbook

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This book came really fast. It was useful for my online class. Haven't opened it since.

Exactly What I Needed

I am taking my class in the Psychology of Addiction. And this text is a key element to my class.

straightforward, with little moralising

This updated edition describes all the common addictive substances that are abused in the US. Alcohol and narcotics. There's nothing here in any depth about the biochemistry of addiction. Rather, the typical perspective of a reader might be that of a social worker. In dispassionate and non-moralising terms, the various drugs are explained. Along with models of addiction that can (or might) be applied to most of the drugs. The symptoms of addiction are made clear. So that you can recognise these in your clients, perhaps. The consequences of addiction are also gone into. The human cost, both to the addict and to those around him. While many of the drugs are illegal in the US, the book tends to avoid discussion about legalisation. Whether or not you think some drugs might be legalised is largely outside the book's scope.