Life of the Heroin User - Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes

Informationen zum Autor Shane Darke is Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Klappentext The first book to apply a biographical approach to the life of the heroin user from birth until death. Zusammenfassung The first book to apply a biographical approach to the life of heroin users from birth until death! including childhood! routes to use! the development of dependence! problems arising from addiction and treatment/prevention options. An important resource for clinicians! researchers and students in drug/alcohol studies and public health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Addict 'careers': the lifecycle of the opioid user; 2. Parents and childhood; 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use; 4. The mid-teens: the commencement of opioid use; 5. The twenties and thirties: the polydrug-using opioid user; 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse; 7. The older opioid user: the forties and beyond; 8. Death: rates and causes; 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Shane Darke, Shane (University of New South Wales Darke, Darke Shane
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107000636
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00063-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Mental Health, Psychiatry, Addiction & therapy, Clinical psychology, Addiction and therapy, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects