The Nature of Alcohol and Drug-related Problems
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262138-2 (ISBN)
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The physical, social and psychological problems associated with the misuse of alcohol and other drugs affect all levels of society and are extremely costly. However, compared with the considerable research and resulting recent advances in knowledge devoted to exploring the nature of drug dependence, there has been less attention given to the nature and causes of the resulting problems. For example, why the effects of alcohol should be more devastating in the young, or more prevalent in the socially disadvantaged, or the extent to which one can infer that drugs cause crime, are important theoretical and practical questions. The conference on which the book is based provided a forum for an international array of experts in the addictions field to focus on the practical and research issues surrounding alcohol and drug-related problems. The principal strength of the resulting analysis lies in the broad multidisciplinary perspective afforded by participants from the fields of sociology, psychology, philosophy, epidemiology and medicine.
This volume, which aims to point to the extent as well as to the limitations of the current state of knowledge, provides an overview and reference source for both professionals and students.
Problems and dependence - the history of two dimensions. G. Edwards; temperance cultures - concern about alcohol problems in Nordic and English-speaking cultures, H.G. Levine; correlation and causality - notes on epistemological problems in substance abuse research, O.-J. Skog; problems and dependence - chalk and cheese or bread and butter?, C. Drummond; substance-related problems in the context of international classificatory systems, T.F. Babor; drinking problems - the individual in social context, N. Kreitman; the role of culture in the drug question, G. Pearson; detecting individual factors in substance abuse problems, L. Robins; individual susceptibility to alcohol abuse and to ethanol toxity, T.J. Peters; problem definition - the case of the benzodiazepines, M. Lader; the problems perspective - implications for prevention policies, R.G. Smart; treatment strategies within a problems framework, D.C. Drummond; the demands which the problem perspective sets for research, M. Lader, G. Edwards and D.C. Drummond; the meanings of a problem - a debate around a problematic concept.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.1992 |
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| Co-Autor | Griffith Edwards, D.Colin Drummond |
| Zusatzinfo | line drawings, tables, bibliography |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-262138-6 / 0192621386 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-262138-2 / 9780192621382 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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