Understanding Addiction (Understanding Health and Sickness Series) - Hardcover

Henderson, Elizabeth Connell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157806239X ISBN 13: 9781578062393

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2000

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Book by Henderson, Elizabeth Connell

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Clinical psychiatrist Henderson, a specialist on addiction, writes clearly and informatively on how addictions develop, how the addicted brain works, and what the different effects of the major addictive drugs are, and on genetic, psychological, and behavioral factors involved in addiction. Her experience is that most drugs are "gateways": start with one--marijuana, for example--and you very likely will go on to another. Marijuana is not harmless, she says, but is a serious drug that has no medical use that can't be matched by other treatments. About alcohol, Henderson says that, although the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychiatry's bible, doesn't see alcoholism as a disease, it is in fact a "brain disorder" to which the will strongly contributes, for the "I-can-quit-anytime" response is mere denial. Henderson also explores addicts' problems with recovery, having more than one psychological disorder, and relapses. William Beatty
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Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157806239X
• ISBN 13: 9781578062393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209