The life of the heroin user : typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes / Shane Darke.

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Darke, Shane

Material type: Text

TextSeries: International research monographs in the addictionsPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139128049
1139128043
9781139117388
1139117386
9780511732249
0511732244
1283296128
9781283296120
9781139115216
1139115219
9786613296122
6613296120
9781139123136
1139123130

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life of the heroin user.DDC classification:

362.29/3 22

LOC classification:

HV5822.H4 D367 2011eb

NLM classification:

2011 J-846
WM 288

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MED102000

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Contents:

Chapter 1. Heroin and addict 'careers' -- Chapter 2. Parents and childhood -- Chapter 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use -- Chapter 4. The mid to late teens: commencing heroin use -- Chapter 5. The 20s and 30s: the heroin and polydrug use -- Chapter 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse -- Chapter 7. The older heroin user: the 40s and beyond -- Chapter 8. Death: rates and causes -- Chapter 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?

Summary: "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 opium 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-176) and index.

"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 opium 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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