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Book Description: Encounter Books, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9781594030871

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Book Description: Encounter Books,USA, United States, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 237 x 163 mm. Brand New Book. Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths (drugs are creative and intense) in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatment. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He argues that withdrawal from opiates is not the serious medical condition, but a relatively trivial experience and says that criminality causes addiction far more often than addiction causes criminality. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781594030871

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Book Description: Encounter Books,USA. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy, Theodore Dalrymple, Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths (drugs are creative and intense) in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatment. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He argues that withdrawal from opiates is not the serious medical condition, but a relatively trivial experience and says that criminality causes addiction far more often than addiction causes criminality. Bookseller Inventory # B9781594030871

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Book Description: Encounter Books, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 165 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-1594030871

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st. 162mm x 18mm x 230mm. Hardcover. For two hundred years, addiction to opiates has seemed both dangerous and glamorous. Countless writers, from Coleridge and De Quincey to William Burroughs and Irving Walsh, have invested it with dee.Shipping may be from our UK, US or Australian warehouse depending on stock availability. 146 pages. 0.404. Bookseller Inventory # 9781594030871

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st. 162mm x 18mm x 230mm. Hardcover. For two hundred years, addiction to opiates has seemed both dangerous and glamorous. Countless writers, from Coleridge and De Quincey to William Burroughs and Irving Walsh, ha.Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. 146 pages. 0.404. Bookseller Inventory # 9781594030871

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