The Methamphetamine Crisis - Strategies to Save Addicts, Families, And Communities

Klappentext This groundbreaking book detailing the newest drug scourge to hit the streets includes information on the effects of and addiction to methamphetamine on the users, their children and their communities. The comprehensive coverage here includes details of the environmental effects of meth labs, as well as photographs of the physical effects of this drug, including how this form of speed rapidly and grotesquely ages users. Contributors include medical and psychological practitioners, law enforcement officers, public health specialists, scientists, and child welfare caseworkers. Three chapters are written by meth users in recovery and the parent of an addict. The text also reviews psychological treatments showing some success, and creative steps being taken by communities and court officials to reduce the threat from this so-called poor man's cocaine which has killed adults and children from all economic groups and walks of life. Zusammenfassung Gives information on the effects of and addiction to methamphetamine on the users, their children and their communities. This book also includes details of the environmental effects of meth labs, as well as photographs of the physical effects of this drug, including how this form of speed rapidly and grotesquely ages users.

Product details

• Authors: Herbert C. (EDT)/ Moriarty Covey
• Assisted by: Herbert C. Covey (Editor), Covey Herbert C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2006
• EAN: 9780275993221
• ISBN: 978-0-275-99322-1
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Health and Wellness: Addiction and Substance Abuse