Confronting the Drug Problem
Author | : DIANE Publishing Company |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : xxx |
ISBN | : 9780788107009 |
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Author | : DIANE Publishing Company |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1994-04 |
Genre | : xxx |
ISBN | : 9780788107009 |
Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Office of the Surgeon General |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781974580620 |
All across the United States, individuals, families, communities, and health care systems are struggling to cope with substance use, misuse, and substance use disorders. Substance misuse and substance use disorders have devastating effects, disrupt the future plans of too many young people, and all too often, end lives prematurely and tragically. Substance misuse is a major public health challenge and a priority for our nation to address. The effects of substance use are cumulative and costly for our society, placing burdens on workplaces, the health care system, families, states, and communities. The Report discusses opportunities to bring substance use disorder treatment and mainstream health care systems into alignment so that they can address a person's overall health, rather than a substance misuse or a physical health condition alone or in isolation. It also provides suggestions and recommendations for action that everyone-individuals, families, community leaders, law enforcement, health care professionals, policymakers, and researchers-can take to prevent substance misuse and reduce its consequences.
Author | : Curtis Welton Gaddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Drug abuse |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Accounting Office (GAO) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2018-03-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781985642317 |
GGD-93-82 Confronting the Drug Problem: Debate Persists on Enforcement and Alternative Approaches
Author | : William N. Brownsberger |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0674038622 |
This book is the culmination of five years of debate among distinguished scholars in law, public policy, medicine, and biopsychology, about the most difficult questions in drug policy and the study of addictions. Do drug addicts have an illness, or is the addiction under their control? Should they be treated as patients or as criminals? Challenging the conventional wisdom, the authors show that these standard dichotomies are false.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Grinspoon |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-02-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 031638268X |
Free Refills is the harrowing tale of a Harvard-trained medical doctor run horribly amok through his addiction to prescription medication, and his recovery. Dr. Peter Grinspoon seemed to be a total success: a Harvard-educated M.D. with a thriving practice; married with two great kids and a gorgeous wife; a pillar of his community. But lurking beneath the thin veneer of having it all was an addict fueled on a daily boatload of prescription meds. When the police finally came calling--after a tip from a sharp-eyed pharmacist--Grinspoon's house of cards came tumbling down fast. His professional ego turned out to be an impediment to getting clean as he cycled through recovery to relapse, his reputation, family life, and lifestyle in ruins. What finally moves him to recover and reclaim life--including working with other physicians who themselves are addicts--makes for inspiring reading.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2019-06-16 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309486483 |
The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
Author | : Chris Fleming |
Publisher | : Giramondo Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1925818187 |
A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming’s experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion. A philosopher by training, Fleming combines meticulous observation of his life with a keen sense of the absurdity of his actions. He describes the intricacies of drug use and acquisition, their impact on the intellect and emotions, and the chaos that emerges as his tightly managed existence unravels into arrests, hospitalisations and family breakdown. His account is accompanied by searching reflections on his childhood, during which he developed acute obsessive compulsive disorder and became fixated on martial arts, music-making and bodybuilding. In confronting the pathos and comedy of drug use, On Drugs also opens out into meditations on the self and its deceptions, on popular culture, religion and mental illness, and the tortuous path to recovery. ‘Philosopher Chris Fleming’s memoir is a searching, considered account of drug and alcohol use and the mechanisms of addiction. Fleming traces his history of marijuana, codeine-based painkillers and alcohol consumption, as his fluctuating control over his drug use ultimately deteriorates….As well as being an engaging writer, Fleming is skilled at pulling a diverse array of academic theory and ideas into his memoir, and making them relevant to his project of understanding addiction.’ — Brad Jefferies, Books+Publishing