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Addiction has become enshrined in the professional and public mind as an intractable biological disorder that can be adequately addressed by limiting current practice to medical models and criminal justice interventions. In this collection of widely acclaimed articles and lectures. Phil Harris re-examines the origin, validity and limits of current practice, and exposes the detrimental impact of the narrow set of concerns we bring to addiction and its treatment. In doing so he challenges the preoccupations of national policy and international research, demonstrating how addiction is the product of deeper human concerns of identity, meaning and exclusion. The specially reworked articles offer innovative perspectives for understanding addiction and how we should respond to it at individual and organisational levels. It reaches out beyond clinical approaches in an open and accessible style, and will resonate with the experience of practitioners as well as those personally affected by addiction - users and ex-users, and their concerned families and friends.
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Phil Harris is an independent writer who has worked as a practitioner and manager in direct access drug services for over ten years. He has designed and delivered internationally recognised treatment programmes and accredited training courses. Having worked as a drugs advisor in Sweden, Holland and Macedonia, he continues to practise in the south west of England.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
this book gives the reader harris' point of view (backed by citations) on a range of subjects relevant to drug treatment. it does make the reader reassess their rigid beliefs. the book is quite expensive for what it is.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Phil's work in this book covers the full breadth of substance misuse; this book is an important and comprehensive addition to an area of care flooded with-at times- clichéd and shallow approaches.
Phil's book asks many important questions, challenges some if not most of the norms and invites the worker/therapist into a deeper approach, one that welcomes thought outside of the box of ideas. Shallow acceptance of presented ideas has been at times the fuel to much of the failure that we as drugs workers face on a daily basis. What Phil has done, in this book, and on his courses with the Training Exchange is welcome the worker to explore their approach, in light of well researched, and sometimes little known findings.
My work as a drugs worker has been greatly deepened and expanded by Phil's ideas and findings that he presents in this book, and I commend it to you if you, it is a book I have read twice, and continue to dip into on a weekly basis.
For some reason Amazon don't stock this book, it might be easier to obtain it from the publisher who are Russell House.
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