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In 1995, Anna Wood was 15 years old - pretty, popular, her whole life ahead of her. One night she went to a dance party where she took an ecstacy tablet - three days later she was dead...

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Americans are in the midst of a world-historic drug binge.

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An intelligent and personal look at recreational drug use that will forever change the terms of the debate about the use of recreational drugs.

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Pioneering evidence is presented in this book to support the effectiveness of peer counseling for substance abuse treatment of pregnant women and their families.

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Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today.

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This text provides up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible information about alcohol use in western society and other cultures.

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A survey of recent work, both scholarly and practical, on the relationship between alcohol and the workplace, examining the problems, the research and the possible solutions. It provides a range of data and ideas, and offers suggestions and implications for the practitioner in the workplace.

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Based on long-term observation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author focuses on cultural rather than personal causes of drug dependence. Through the shared linguistic and cultural interaction of AA, the U.S. cultural ideology that emphasizes individualism, personal achievement, self-control, and self-reliance is shown to result in conflict;

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Experts in gerontology, clinical psychology, and geriatric medicine provide an analytical survey and abstracts of the significant literature and research dealing with alcoholism and aging over the last 30 years.

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Focusing on strategic intervention designed to help employees with personal problems that interfere with job performance, Walter Scanlon describes the functions and benefits of employee assistance programs (EAPs), discusses their training and consultation objectives, and shows how EAPs effectively identify and address such problems.

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Cocaine has started wars, prompted invasions, embarrassed politicians, toppled governments, filled prisons, created billionaires, fuelled parties, bankrupted countries and taken thousands of lives. This study examines the history of this drug.

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This book presents adaptations of the therapeutic community (TC) model and method for special populations of substance abusers, and implementation in a variety of institutions and human service settings.

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An authority on anti-drug policy and crack since it became a popular street drug in the mid-1980s, Belenko traces the development of America's policy response in the context of changes in policy that were underway when crack first appeared.

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This collection reports on the progress of the intervention programs first described in Innovative Approaches in the Treatment of Drug Abuse: Program Models and Strategies (Inciardi and Fletcher, 1993).

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The 19 papers of this collection assess the problems and policies of drug use in the Middle East, with most papers detailing issues in Israel and Palestine. The papers, which are mainly not comparative studies but detail issues in each area, are grouped under four themes: social context, people in t

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The vast majority of these offenders were arrested for committing violent crimes, and most of the offenders are poor, unemployed, uneducated, come from dysfunctional families, and are African-American.

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Using data from an ongoing longitudinal study of adolescents and young adults, this provocative volume examines the frequency, prevalence, and types of disruptive drug use in the workplace and in schools.

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This work examines issues about the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs from multiple perspectives including the social context of reality, historical and present patterns of use, causal factors associated with addiction and research findings including those of a cross-cultural nature.

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A balanced and straightforward survey of the key issues, facts, and controversies surrounding the use and abuse of harmful drugs in the United States and abroad.