Addiction
Published on 1. November 1994
Book
Hardback
283 pages
978-0-19-262433-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book results from a meeting organized by the Society for the Study of Addiction in May 1992, together with further invited contributions. Addiction may by perceived as a progressive disease, or as an adaption of key neuroreceptors, depending on the viewpoint of the observer. Factors influencing changes in addictive behaviour may have a psychological and/or pharmacological basis. Innovation, changes in personal ideology and intention, changes in personal relationships, and socio-economic and legal factors each play a role in the changing use of addictive substances. This volume addresses the many processes of change affecting substance abuse from a multidisciplinary perspective.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables, bibliography
ISBN-13
978-0-19-262433-8 (9780192624338)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1: Change as a dominant theme in science. 2: Alcohol, drug, and tobacco dependence: charting and comparing the likelihood and time-course of relapse and recovery. 3: The changing pharmacology of addiction. 4: Can psychology make sense of change?. 5: Dependence and the correlates of change: a review of the literature. 6: The image of progressive disease. 7: Understanding smoking relapse: predisposing factors, precipitating factors, and a combined model. 8: Environmental influences which promote or impede change in substance behaviour. 9: Economic influences on change in population and personal substance behaviour. 10: Diffusion of innovation as a model for understanding population change in substance use. 11: Ideological beliefs influence the feasibilities for policy change. 12: Multiple indicators of change: can we identify the dimensions?. 13: Change in addictions: does treatment make a difference? What smoking research can tell. 14: Technical habilments, science and the clinical frontline: asking some questions