- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited; 5th Revised edition edition (18 April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840149396
- ISBN-13: 978-1840149395
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 777,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A study of drugs - the different kinds of drugs, the reasons why people take drugs, the ways in which people have used drugs, and some of the difficulties to which drug-taking can lead. The various hazards of use discussed include the physical and psychological health of users, the social penalties incurred by use of abuse, and the risk of dependence. In addition, the effects of drugs may be directly linked to the drug effect or indirectly related to behavioural patterns of use or to social consequences of use. The book is also about the ordinariness of drug taking. Where drugs are presented as though they were something alien and unusually dangerous, it tries to put drug-taking in a more balanced perspective, showing that even those who drink tea or coffee are drug takers. There are updated definitions of the main terms used within the fields of drugs and alcohol.
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Professor Gossop is a leading addictions researcher in the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and Head of Research in the Addictions Directorate at the Maudsley Hospital in London. In 1998 he was presented with the European Addiction Research Award for 'outstanding contributions to the advancement of addiction research'. He is the founding editor of Addictions Abstracts, and has published more than 400 articles on addictions, including 9 books.
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An easy to understand and structured guide to the effects - immediate and short term; physical and physcological - of drugs. Michael Gossop answers many questions and dispells even more myths that have evolved within and without the drug taking scene. He provides an educational light in the underground darkness, that for me at least is very welcome. Readers will find themselves addicted.
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A penetrating study of drug use and social stigma
22 May 1999
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The famous British researcher Michael Gossop has written a peneatring and thought provoking book about drugs and the social and legal reaction to use of drugs.
The book is divided in 12 chapters covering a vide range of subjects. Living with drugs is, in the authors opionion, a book about how drug taking in one form another is with us to stay. Even if giving a social science analysis of the role of drugs in our societies, the author is also rather practical and down to earth in his description of different drugs and their effects.
The book is not updated on the newest research on new drugs, however it gives a good overview of the most common drugs used.
Myself responsible for educating social- and health workers I found it a most helpful introduction to the problems af drug use.
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