The life of the heroin user : typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes / Shane Darke
- Bib ID:
- 5716601
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Darke, Shane
- Related Online Resources:
- Cover image
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
- xv, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- 9781107000636
- 1107000637
- Series:
- International research monographs in the addictions.
- Summary:
-
"Heroin is a worldwide scourge and a seemingly intractable one. The Life of the Heroin User: Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes is the first book to apply a biographical approach to the lifecycle of the heroin user from birth until death. Chapters address each stage of the user's life, including childhood, routes to use, the development of dependence, problems arising from addiction, death and options for treatment and prevention. Drawing on over two decades of experience in the field of opium research, Shane Darke examines major theoretical approaches to the development of opiate dependence and the efficacy of treatment options for opiate dependence. Key points are presented at the end of each chapter. The most detailed review available of what is likely to happen to the dependent heroin user, this is an important book for clinicians, researchers and students in the fields of drug and alcohol studies and public health"--
- Full contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Heroin and addict 'careers'; 2. Parents and childhood; 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use; 4. The mid to late teens: the commencing heroin use; 5. The 20s and 30s: heroin and polydrug use; 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse; 7. The older heroin user: the 40s and beyond; 8. Death: rates and causes; 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?; Index.
- Notes:
-
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2011
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Beating heroin / Neil Beck
- How to stop time : heroin from A to Z / Ann Marlowe
- Heroin / [the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)]
- Let us all together prevent the heroin danger / by Maung Sein Hla
- Age of initiation to heroin use : cohort trends and consequences of early initiation for subsequent adjustment / Michael Lynskey & Wayne Hall