Pycroft, Aaron.

Understanding & working with substance misusers / Understanding and working with substance misusers. Aaron Pycroft. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010. - xiii, 168 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-162) and index.

Drugs and drug users in context -- The policy context and legal framework -- From disease to dependency syndrome -- Harm reduction approaches -- The psychological revolution -- The genetic revolution and disease theory revisited -- Interventions and equivocal outcomes -- Complex adaptive systems : a new paradigm for working with addiction? -- Pulling it all together : an extended case study.

9781847872623 (pbk) 184787262X (pbk) 9781847872616 (hbk) 1847872611 (hbk)

2009940797


Substance abuse.
Substance abuse--Treatment.

HV4998 / .P93 2010

362.29