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. Editor(s): Wood, Fiona; Bloor, Mick; Bloor, Michael. Series: Research Highlights in Social Work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 326. . 1998. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Addictions and Problem Drug Use: Issues in Behaviour, Policy and Practice (Research Highlights in Social Work, 33)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1853024384
ISBN 13: 9781853024382
Binding: Soft cover
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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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Mick Bloor and Fiona Wood are at the University of Wales College at Cardiff.

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