substance abuse

Contains twenty-four critical essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to addiction, and discusses the definition of addiction, how to prevent and treat addiction, and the social consequences.

Examines the drug problem, why legal efforts to prevent drugs from reaching the public have failed, and steps the government has taken to enter the fields of prevention and treatment.

Author David Sheff offers a new paradigm for dealing with addiction based on cutting-edge research and stories of his own and other families' struggles with--and triumphs over--drug abuse.

Describes addiction to alcohol, drugs, and nicotine, discussing the psychology of addiction, the role of heredity, the impact of addiction on society, and treatments.

An overview of addiction that explains what it is and discusses several aspects of the problem, including various types of addiction, who gets addicted and how, what happens to the addicted brain, how addiction affects family members, and how one can recover.

Traces the history of the spread of drug cultivation and manufacturing, looking at how the world's principal psychoactive resources entered the stream of global commerce, discussing psychactive substances as medical and recreational products, and showing how psychactive trade benefited mercantile and imperial elites.

Examines the physical, ethical, and public policy issues that have arisen as the result of excessive and inappropriate substance use.

Presents the author's first-hand account of his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, and provides suggestions for what it takes to get clean.

Thomas struggles to accept his billionaire father's marriage to governess Nicola Vileroy and begins to spend less time with his friends and more time at clubs, where someone slips him a dangerous drug, but things get scarier after Thomas begins to suspect Vileroy is part of a sinister supernatural plan.