Heroin is a worldwide scourge and a seemingly intractable one. The Life of the Heroin User: Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes is the first book to apply a biographical approach to the lifecycle of the heroin user from birth until death. Chapters address each stage of the user's life, including childhood, routes to use, the development of dependence, problems arising from addiction, death and options for treatment and prevention. Drawing on over two decades of experience in the field of opiate research, Shane Darke examines major theoretical approaches to the development of opiate dependence and the efficacy of treatment options for opiate dependence. Key points are presented at the end of each chapter. The most detailed review available of what is likely to happen to the dependent heroin user, this is an important book for clinicians, researchers and students in the fields of drug and alcohol studies and public health.
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Shane Darke is Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xv + 188 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "Volumes in this series present important research from major centres around the world on the basic sciences, both biological and behavioural, that have a bearing on the addictions. They also address the clinical and public health applications of such research. The series will cover alcohol, illicit drugs, psychotropics and tobacco. It is an important resource for clinicians, researchers and policy-makers." -- Contents: List of tables; Foreword by Griffith Edwards; Preface; 1. Heroin and addict 'careers' [Introduction; What are the opioids?; How common is heroin use?; Dependence liability of heroin; Major harms of heroin use; Costs to society; Addict 'career'; Summary] 2. Parents and childhood [Introduction; Social disadvantage; Parents of heroin users (Parental substance abuse; Parental psychopathology); Genetics and heroin dependence; Childhood sexual and physical abuse; Childhood psychopathology of the heroin user; Summary] 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use [Introduction; Gateway hypothesis (Evidence for gateway theory; Alternative interpretations of drug initiation sequencing); Trends in the age of substance use initiation; Early licit substance use among heroin users (Tobacco; Alcohol); Early illicit substance use among heroin users (Cannabis; Psychostimulants); Early sexual activity; Summary] 4. The mid to late teens: commencing heroin use [Introduction; Initiating heroin use (Age of initiation); Routes of heroin administration (Injection; Smoking; Transitions between routes of heroin administration); Harms of early stage heroin use; Summary] 5. The 20s and 30s: heroin and polydrug use [Introduction; Heroin use patterns; Polydrug use patterns (Alcohol; Benzodiazepines; Psychostimulants); Drug-related problems (Overdose; Health; Psychopathology; Social disadvantage; Crime); Summary] 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse [Introduction; What are the main treatments for heroin dependence? (Detoxification; Drug-free residential rehabilitation; Opioid maintenance therapies; Antagonist maintenance therapies); Treatment cycle; What does successful treatment achieve? (Drug use; Drug-related problems); What predicts remission and relapse? (Client characteristics; Treatment characteristics); Summary] 7. The older heroin user: the 40s and beyond [Introduction; Do heroin users 'mature out'? ('Maturing out' hypothesis); Drug use patterns of the older heroin user; Morbidity and the older heroin user (Physical morbidity; Psychopathology); Mortality risk and the older heroin user; Summary] 8. Death: rates and causes [Introduction; Rates of mortality; Demography of death amongst heroin users (Age and mortality; Gender and mortality); Causes of death (Overdose; Disease; Suicide; Trauma); Summary] 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death? [Lifecycle: a retrospective; Clinical implications (An inevitable trajectory?; Prevention; Treatment; Harm reduction: - Needle and syringe provision - Overdose prevention - Medically supervised injecting centres); Concluding remarks]; References; Index. N° de réf. du vendeur 011311
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Etat : New. The first book to apply a biographical approach to the life of the heroin user from birth until death. Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions. Num Pages: 204 pages, 20 tables. BIC Classification: JFFH1; MMZR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2011. Hardback. . . . . N° de réf. du vendeur V9781107000636
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