Overview
This text is designed to bring general readers face-to-face with drugs of abuse and addiction. Through straightforward explanations of the stimulants, depressants, psychedelic and inhalants, this guide aims to demonstrate how drugs of abuse affect thinking, behaviour, perceptions and emotions. It also examines the effects of addiction on the user's family. The guide goes on to explain various treatments available, what happens during treatment, and what patients and their families can expect of it. It also describes the recovery process, helping people to identify recovery - good and bad - and the warning isgns of relapse. Mim J. Landry has also co-authored ""The New Drugs: Lookalikes, Designer Drugs, and Drugs of Deception"".
Full Product Details
Author: Mim J. Landry (Director of Medical and Science Communication)
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.771kg
ISBN: 9780880485333
ISBN 10: 0880485337
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 31 October 1993
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
<p> Professionals should scrutinize this volume as a resource for patients, families, and friends. This lucid guide for a lay audience covers basic principles of addiction, reviews various classes of drugs, and presents a comprehensive guide to treatment. Included are chapters on dual diagnosis and adolescent addiction. -- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Professionals should scrutinize this volume as a resource for patients, families, and friends. This lucid guide for a lay audience covers basic principles of addiction, reviews various classes of drugs, and presents a comprehensive guide to treatment. Included are chapters on dual diagnosis and adolescent addiction. - Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
Author Information
Mim J. Landry is a medical writer specializing in addiction and psychiatry. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, Family Practice Recertification, and California Nursing Review. He is a co-author of The New Drugs: Lookalikes, Designer Drugs, and Drugs of Deception. Mr. Landry was the Director of the Training and Education Project at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinics in San Francisco where he worked for eight years. Mr. Landry is the Director of Editorial Services for Danya International, a Silver Spring, Maryland health communications company. In this capacity, he develops educational materials for healthcare professionals, such as online courses and similar products regarding substance abuse treatment and prevention, mental health treatment, and public health.
