Michael Gossop

Living With Drugs (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its seventh edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new edition to take account of new laws and practices that have come in to place since the previous edition, published in 2007. Written in an accessible style and providing a balanced perspective, the book is ideal for non-specialists in training, such as student nurses and social workers and for anyone with an interest in this complex, ever-present and emotive issue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351921701
• Artikelnr.: 49355925

Autorenporträt

Professor Gossop is an international expert on drug and alcohol problems. He is a leading addictions researcher in the National Addiction Centre, King's College London, and at the Norwegian Centre for Addiction Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. For more than 35 years he worked in the drug and alcohol addiction treatment services at the Maudsley Hospital in London. In 1998 he was presented with the European Addiction Research Award for 'outstanding contributions to the advancement of addiction research'. He has conducted research into most aspects of drug and alcohol use and has published more than 450 articles on the addictions, including 9 books.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The chemistry of everyday life
The effects of drugs
The social context
Chemical comforts
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
The hallucinogens
Archetypal drugs of abuse
The control of drugs
Junkie myths
Doors in the wall
References
Index.