A Plague Of Prisons
The epidemiology of mass incarceration in America.
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A Small Book About Drugs
An intelligent and personal look at the complex issue of recreational drug use that will change the terms of the debate.
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Addiction
Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library series, this concise pocketbook provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the brain science underpinning addiction.
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Addiction – HBO companion book
Based on the HBO documentary series this companion book is essential reading for anyone who has struggled with the consequences of their own or someone else’s substance addiction.
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Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
A book sure to inspire controversy. Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction (that it is a compulsion beyond conscious control) is wrong and makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary.
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Anabolic Steroid Abuse
Looks at abuse of anabolic steroids and the possibility of resulting acute, chronic conditions.
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Beautiful Boy
A father’s journey through his son’s addiction.
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Bevel Up : Teachers Guide
A teaching guide intended to assist educators to facilitate discussions among nursing students.
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Big Shoes, Little Feet – A guide to Youth Engagement
A resource for service providers to help facilitate guided discussions that will give young people an opportunity to explore drug related issues in a safe and supportive environment. Accompanied by DVD.
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Chasing The Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
In this novel Hari reveals his discoveries entirely through the stories of people across the world whose lives have been transformed by this war.
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Clean
Clean is a leap beyond the traditional approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction and the mental illnesses that usually accompany it.
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Coming to Harm Reduction Kicking and Screaming
Looking for Harm Reduction in a 12-step world. This book documents the history of the harm reduction movement through compelling personal narratives.
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Dealing With Addiction…. Why The 20th Century Was Wrong
Dr. Ferentzy has lived the life of a crack addict and reveals the ugly truth. He claims the dominant approach to drug and alcohol addictions has hurt more people than it has helped.
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Dope Guide
Sex work, drugs, alcohol and other substances.
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Drug, Set, and Setting
This discussion by a leading expert on drug use, illuminates the factors that permit some people to use such highly addictive and dangerous substance as alcohol, marijuana, psychedelics and opiates in a controlled fashion.
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Epidemiology
In this best selling textbook, Dr Gordis explains the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention, explores the use of epidemiologic principles to identify the causes of disease, and discusses how epidemiology should be used to improve evaluation and public policy.
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Freedom from Self-Harm
Self-injury can be as addictive as any drug, and the secrecy and shame many sufferers feel about this behaviour can keep them feeling trapped.
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Harm Reduction in Substance Use and High Risk Behaviour
Written by an international team of contributors, this text provides an essential panorama of harm reduction in the 21st century for educators and researchers in addiction and public health.
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Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems
This ground breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients.
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Harm Reduction: Pragmatic Strategies
Pragmatic Strategies for managing High-Risk Behaviors. This book brings together researchers and practitioners who have made significant contributions to the growth and acceptance of harm reduction as an integral and effective approach to minimizing the negative consequences of high-risk behavior.
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Healing the Addicted Brain
An in-depth look at drug and alcohol addiction as a chronic , treatable disease of the brain.
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In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviors
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Matters of Substance
From nicotine to marijuana, from caffeine to ecstasy, this book explores the pervasive influence of drugs around the world.
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs.
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Off The Street
A comprehensive road map to ending the war on drugs, this book calls for a thoughtful discussion of the legalization and regulation of recreational drugs.
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Over The Influence
The Harm Reduction guide to managing drugs and alcohol
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Scattered Minds
Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment
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Solution Focused Harm Reduction
This book explains the synergies between solution focused brief therapy and harm reduction. Dr. Foy discusses how these two approaches are complementary and when used in conjunction, create a novel way of approaching addiction.
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The Addicted Brain
Using breathtaking brain imagery and other research, Michael Kuhar shows us the powerful, long-term brain changes that drugs can cause.
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The Honest Drug Book
The contents of this book are the product of scientific pursuit. It comprises data and insight which is provided to support harm reduction and a safer approach. The author has systematically taken over 100 chemical and botanical substances and documented his experiences.
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The Ice Age
A journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction. Combining memoir with reportage, this compelling first-person account investigates a drug that is fast becoming a subject of discussion throughout the Western World.
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The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels and the business of AIDS
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We All Fall Down
Nic Sheff captures the insidious, almost vampiric mind-set of an addict who shrinks from any form of light. This book has more in common with Kafka than any recovery memoir I’ve read. – Mary Karr, New York Times
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