Drug Addiction and Its Treatment
Drug Addiction and Its Treatment
Few problems are as complicated as drug misuse. Drug addiction is a major public health issue with implications for healthcare systems and society at large. As well as expenditure on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, costs are also incurred by the welfare, social service and the criminal justice systems. In addition, there are further human costs associated with impaired health, damaged relationships and lowered productivity.
This book is about treatment options. The history of ad
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W. Brooks Gentry, MD – W. Brooks Gentry, MD Professor, Anesthesiology and Pharmacology. Research Interest: Drug abuse treatments affecting concentration/time in the body
Substance abuse diagnoses increasing in US
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Possibly driven by a surge in painkiller abuse, the number of drug and alcohol problems diagnosed by U.S. doctors increased by 70 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to new research. "We know that increases in prescription drug use are a big part … Read more on Fox News
Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World
This study, by two leading scholarsin the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studiesto uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?
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