DRUG DEPENDENCE: Current Problems and Issues

Glatt, M.M.

ISBN 10: 0852001126 / ISBN 13: 9780852001127

Editore: MTP Press Limited, Lancaster, 1977

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This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in blue brodart covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Drug dependence-according to the 1969 W orId Health Organization definition-is 'A state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characte­ rized by behavioural and other responses that always include a com­ pulsion to take the drug on a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absence. Tolerance mayor may not be present. A person may be dependent on more than one drug'. The substitution of the term 'Drug Dependence' in place of the previously employed terms 'Drug Addiction' and 'Drug Habituation' was recommended by a WHO Expert Committee in 1964. It was felt that there had been ongoing confusion in the use of the terms addiction and habituation and in particular, misuse of the term addiction. In 1965 the WHO Expert Committee 'was pleased to note the generally favourable reaction to the recommendations' made in the previous year and the gradual acceptance of the new term. In general, in subsequent years the term 'Drug Dependence' has gained increasing acceptance. Yet it would seem that difficulties may arise whatever term and definition may be used (Glatt, 1974), and although by and large the newer term seems more appropriate than the older definitions, one still often comes across the term' Addiction', and this not only when discussing the matter with laymen or drug misusers themselves. Ref UUU 2.

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• Titolo: DRUG DEPENDENCE: Current Problems and Issues
• Editore: MTP Press Limited, Lancaster
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0852001126
• ISBN 13: 9780852001127
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: New

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Drug dependence-according to the 1969 W orId Health Organization definition-is 'A state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting from the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characte- rized by behavioural and other responses that always include a com- pulsion to take the drug on a continuous or periodic basis in order to experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its absence. Tolerance mayor may not be present. A person may be dependent on more than one drug'. The substitution of the term 'Drug Dependence' in place of the previously employed terms 'Drug Addiction' and 'Drug Habituation' was recommended by a WHO Expert Committee in 1964. It was felt that there had been ongoing confusion in the use of the terms addiction and habituation and in particular, misuse of the term addiction. In 1965 the WHO Expert Committee 'was pleased to note the generally favourable reaction to the recommendations' made in the previous year and the gradual acceptance of the new term. In general, in subsequent years the term 'Drug Dependence' has gained increasing acceptance. Yet it would seem that difficulties may arise whatever term and definition may be used (Glatt, 1974), and although by and large the newer term seems more appropriate than the older definitions, one still often comes across the term' Addiction', and this not only when discussing the matter with laymen or drug misusers themselves.

Contenuti

I: Nature, Aetiology, Epidemiology.- 1 Alcohol and Drug Misuse Treatment: Problems and Issues.- 2 The Nature of Addiction.- 3 Vicious Circles in Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.- 4 The Epidemiology of Drug abuse and Drug abuse Rehabilitation.- 5 The Interaction Between Alcohol and Other Forms of Drug Taking.- II: Medical Complications.- 6 The Medical Complications of Drug abuse.- III: Treatment.- 7 Psychotherapy of Drug Dependents and Alcoholics.- 8 New and Innovative Techniques in the Treatment of Drug abuse.- 9 A Therapeutic Community for Dependent Individuals (‘Addicts’) in Prison.- IV: Prevention.- 10 Social Policy and the Prevention of Drug Abuse: Perspective on the Unimodal Approach.- 11 An Enforcement—Prevention Perspective on Drug abuse.- V: The Laboratory’s Contribution.- 12 Detection and Measurement of Drugs in Biological Fluids: Their Relevance to the Problem of Drug Abuse.