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      The Recovery from Dependent Drug Use

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      Beating the Dragon book

      The Recovery from Dependent Drug Use
      ByJames McIntosh
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 24 October 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315847672
      Pages 184
      eBook ISBN 9781315847672
      Subjects Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies
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      McIntosh, J. (2002). Beating the Dragon: The Recovery from Dependent Drug Use (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315847672

      ABSTRACT

      Suitable for 2nd and 3rd year students taking courses on drug use/misuse principally in departments such as Sociology, Law, Cultural and Media Studies, and Psychology. Also particularly relevant for students taking courses leading to a profession, such as nurses and social workers. The use of illegal drugs is widespread in many societies. Within many western societies particular concern has been focused on the nature and extent of illegal drug use amongst young people. In much of the media coverage an impression is often conveyed that the use of illegal drugs other than cannabis is a one way street leading inevitably to addiction, destitution, family breakdown and death. This impression fails to grasp the fact that most drug users do not become addicts and most addicts do not die. The perception of addiction as a fixed end point characterised by personal and social dissolution fails to recognise that many dependent drug users, even after a period of prolonged dependent drug use, nevertheless still manage to overcome their dependence upon illegal drugs. This process of recovery, either with or without the assistance of helping agencies, has been variously described by researchers, drug counsellors, clinicians and others.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|9 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|32 pages

      Becoming and being addicted

      chapter 3|31 pages

      Deciding to quit

      chapter 4|17 pages

      Parenting, children and recovery

      chapter 5|41 pages

      Staying off

      chapter 6|21 pages

      The addicts' views of drug services

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Conclusion

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