Substance use and abuse in South Africa
University of Cape Town Press (Verlag)
978-1-919895-29-1 (ISBN)
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Substance abuse is an enormous social problem in South Africa, as elsewhere. It is one of the focus areas of the Brain-Behaviour Initiative (BBI) at the University of Cape Town, which relates neuroscience and behavioural science to social issues. This ground-breaking book, which presents some of the cutting-edge research of this unit, looks at the problem of substance abuse from multiple perspectives and particularly in the light of recent discoveries in brain and behavioural science, but also taking a public health view. Its focus ranges from brain imaging and dopaminergic neurocircuitry to policy and prevention. In South Africa in particular, tik (crystal meth, or methamphetamine) and alcohol are devastating society, aggravating poverty and crime, and contributing to child abuse and gender violence. Substance Use and Abuse is the first book to address the nature of this problem in an integrated way.
Professor Dan Stein is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town. He has written numerous articles on the role of trauma, violence and alcohol in psychiatric disorders. He is the PI in the Cross-University Brain-Behaviour Initiative focusing on neuroscience, and in the Medical Research Council of South Africa Research Unit on Anxiety Disorders, investigating the psychobiology of anxiety disorders.
Substance abuse and its urgency. Epidemiology and symptomatology: Epidemiology and risk factors; substance use and clinical consequences; developmental consequences and FAS; women and alcohol. Neuroscience and psychology: Evolutionary theory and substance abuse; genetics and molecular biology; brain imaging and neural circuitry; neuropsychology; neuro psychoanalysis; decision-making and substance use; animal models of substance abuse. Intervention and policy: Prevention / schools; sociology - drugs, gangs and shebeens; clinical treatment; political and legal - policy; philosophy and ethics.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.2.2012 |
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| Verlagsort | Cape Town |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 168 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 720 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-919895-29-9 / 1919895299 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-919895-29-1 / 9781919895291 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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