Addictions and Problem Drug Use: Issues in Behaviour, Policy and Practice (Research Highlights in Social Work) - Softcover

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9781853024382: Addictions and Problem Drug Use: Issues in Behaviour, Policy and Practice (Research Highlights in Social Work)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853024384 ISBN 13: 9781853024382
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

This volume reviews recent research into the nature and effects of addiction and considers the usefulness of policies which aim to prevent it. The contributors focus on topics such as smoking, alcoholism, gambling and injecting drug use, examining treatment and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programmes. Such programmes include services for steroid users, needle exchange provision, and social workers' intervention in alcoholism. The reasons why people turn to substance abuse are explored as well as the real effects on health along with other subjects of importance to social workers such as the estimation of drug misuse prevalence. There is also discussion of government policy on drugs in Britain and Holland.

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About the Author

Mick Bloor and Fiona Wood are at the University of Wales College at Cardiff.

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Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853024384
ISBN 13 
9781853024382
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224
Editor
Wood Fiona, Bloor Mick