Drugs and alcohol: social aspects Books
SAGE Publications Inc The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook
Book SynopsisThe Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Patient Workbook is intended for patients on their journey to recovery in 12-step treatment programs. Designed to provide a venue for individuals to write down their thoughts and experiences as they progress through the 12 steps of treatment. As a complement Chemical Dependency Counseling, this interactive book is used and purchased by treatment centers and individual substance abuse counselors. The workbook takes the patient (client) through the first five steps of recovery and offers space for the client to work on their own personal recovery plan. It also has a chapter on preventing relapse and honesty.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chemical Use History Honesty Step One Powerlessness Unmanageability Step Two A Power Greater Than Ourselves Step Three The Moral Law The Key to Step Three How to Turn It Over How to Pray How to Meditate Step Four Personality Defects Physical Liabilities Time-Out The Way to Recovery We Stay on Track Through Action Physical Assets Mental Assets The Autobiography Step Five Step Six Step Seven Step Eight Step Nine Step Ten Step Eleven The Third Step Prayer Step Twelve Stress Management Relaxation Exercise Exercise Program Changing Your Lifestyle Relapse Prevention Relapse Is a Process The Relapse Warning Signs Interpersonal Factors When You Experience a Warning Sign The Behavior Chain A Daily Relapse Prevention Plan People Who Can Help You in Recovery Personal Recovery Plan Statement of Commitment Recommendations for a Successful First Year in Recovery Instructions for Logging Into Online Recovery Support Appendix 1 • Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Questionnaire Appendix 2 • Daily Craving Record References About the Author Recovery Journal
£50.00
University of Massachusetts Press Altering American Consciousness: The History of
Book SynopsisVirtually every American alive has at some point consumed at least one, and very likely more, consciousness altering drug. Even those who actively eschew alcohol, tobacco, and coffee cannot easily avoid the full range of psychoactive substances pervading the culture. If the use of drugs is a constant in American history, the way they have been perceived has varied extensively. Just as the corrupting cigarettes of the early-20th century became the glamorous accessory of Hollywood stars and American GIs in the 1940s, only to fall into public disfavour later as an unhealthy and irresponsible habit, the social significance of every drug changes over time. This work shows how the identity of any psychoactive substance owes as much to its users, their patterns of use, and the cultural context in which the drug is taken, as it owes to the drug's documented physiological effects. Rather than seeing licit drugs and illicit drugs, recreational drugs and medicinal drugs, ""hard"" drugs and ""soft"" drugs as mutually exclusive categories, it challenges readers to consider the ways in which drugs have shifted historically from one category to another.
£24.65
University of Massachusetts Press The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days: Narcotic
Book SynopsisAlthough the topic of habitual narcotic use first surfaced in the United States during the 1820s, it was not until after the Civil War that it became a subject of widespread public attention. Beginning in the 1870s, an increasingly urgent discussion of what some described as a national epidemic of ""drug addiction"" could be found in both medical journals and the popular press. Today, nearly a century and a halflater, the term is so commonplace we speak of people being ""addicted"" to just about anything. Yet, as Timothy A. Hickman argues in this revealing interdisciplinary study, the meaning of addiction has always been as much cultural as scientific and never fixed. In ""The Secret Leprosy of Modern Days"", Hickman resituates the idea of addiction within its original late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century context. Through close readings of a broad range of literary, medical, and legal texts, he shows how Americans of that era conceptualized the dangers of drug addiction in terms of other preoccupations and fears. Anxieties about the accelerating pace of technological change, the loss of personal autonomy, and the degeneration of society attributed to both foreign influences and a decline of manliness all fed into a widespread sense of cultural crisis - a crisis of which the spiraling ""drug problem"" was seen as both contributing cause and consequence. Not surprisingly, Hickman points out, deeply held assumptions of class, race, and gender also figured into the popular understanding of addiction. While white middle-class addicts were often depicted as helpless victims of the social and economic pressures of modern life, their less privileged and nonwhite counterparts were regarded as morally weak. Over time the distinction between ""addict as patient"" and ""addict as criminal"" came to be accepted by the emerging medical establishment and codified into law, eventually finding expression in the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the first national anti-narcotic legislation in the history of the United States - and the basis for much thinking about addiction and drug policy ever since.
£30.82
Health Communications Trauma and Addiction
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£13.63
HCI BOOKS The Complete ACOA Sourcebook
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£15.47
University of Tennessee Press Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic
Book SynopsisThe authors employ the techniques of oral history to penetrate the nether world of the drug user, giving us an engrossing portrait of life in the drug subculture during the 'classic' era of strict narcotic control.Trade ReviewPraise for the previous edition of Addicts Who Survived:"This study has much to say to a general audience, as well as those involved in drug control." —Publishers Weekly
£22.46
Histria LLC The Silver Bullet Solution: Is it time to end the
Book SynopsisWhat’ s been missing the past 30-years that prevented voters and leaders from hearing or acting upon the Gierach call — and the Civil Society call— for legalized, controlled and regulated drugs and drug markets? Why the public repulsion from the Silver Bullet Solution to the many-tentacled, drug-prohibition monster?Have you lost a child to fentanyl or heroin overdose?Are you worried about losing a loved one to drug addiction or drug accident?Is your neighborhood threatened by violent crime and gangs?Is it safe for your child to get to school, go to the park, or play outside?This book offers answers to these challenges, and it broadcasts the idea that there is something “ YOU CAN DO” about it. You can help the new public opinion evolve.Trade ReviewUnited Nations’ recreational drug-control conventions serve an endless “World War on Drugs,” though the UN Charter foundational purpose is 'to maintain international peace and security.' Gierach’s book challenges world leaders, again, to abandon intuitive, drug-war intolerance, as did his 2014 draft of a proposed amendment of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs."—Jindrich Voboril, National Coordinator for Drugs Policy of Czech Republic
£24.26
Skyhorse Publishing Things Stoned People Say
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Academica Press Opium Consumption and Experience in India: From
Book SynopsisOpium Consumption and Experience in India offers a "cultural biography" of opium in the subcontinent. It spans the Raj and India after independence. The book examines the "social lives" of opium in India, beginning as a commodity in the sixteenth century to its social transformation and singularization in the eighteenth century, and its decline from the mid-nineteenth century to obsolescence in the twentieth century to new "paths and diversions" in our own times. The book attempts to illuminate how opium came to occupy a central place in the "cultures of consumption" and also in the socio-economic and political life of a people. How did opium become embedded in a social ethos where it not only served as a social lubricant but soon morphed into a narco-identity for the people of India. The identification of India as a land of "great opium eaters" spawned the propaganda of a "civilizing mission" that ushered in a new era of material exploitation and political domination. This had a significant impact on the development and regulation of opium and its use.
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Academica Press Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the
Book SynopsisThe Opium Factory of Ghazipur has a history all its own. Like most other colonial enterprises, it was developed to further colonial mercantile and imperial interests. Ghazipore, as it was known in British India, was the headquarters of the Benaras opium agency, which included almost the whole of the then-United Provinces. Directed and driven by metropolitan capital, the opium factory's success signaled the rise of colonial India as a major exporter of raw opium. Nevertheless, the opium factory was not simply a site of production of "provision" opium; it was where metropolitan capital and imperial science and technology intertwined to ensure the vitality of a colonial establishment. Technology was not everything, however. Raising the standard of opium manufacturing required the services of the "opium chemist," who became vital to the efficacy of the entire operation. Colonial research focused on the extraction of alkaloids to meet the growing demand of medicinal opium and its imports to England during and after World War II. From a site of manufacture of crude raw opium, the factory evolved into a modern pharmaceutical concern that was totally redesigned and reequipped. Renamed the "Government Opium and Alkaloid Works," some elements of continuity render this 200-year old monument a legacy embodying a powerful narrative of how "opium made the world go round." This work is an attempt to revisit and uncover the many trajectories of the Ghazipur opium factory, which still remains a site of production in the twenty-first century.
£96.30
Headline Publishing Group The A-Z of Binning the Booze
Book SynopsisYour journey to a happy, alcohol-free life begins right here...From the bestselling founder of Soberistas.com comes this personal, unpreachy manual for getting you off the booze to a place where you can enjoy not drinking and become the person you want to be.The A-Z Of Binning The Booze is an honest, realistic approach to learning how to survive the pressures of living without alcohol, written from the personal experience of an ex binge drinker, who stopped boozing and has never looked back. This book covers practical topics such as:How to enjoy alcohol-free weekends and holidaysThe benefits of a booze-free love lifeHow exercise, nutrition and mindfulness can help you on your journeyDiscover all the solutions you'll need for making the transformation to a new happier, healthier you!Trade Review"This book will help anyone trying to choose sobriety over a life of alcohol dependency. Personal, passionate, convincing." -- Alastair Campbell
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Profile Books Ltd The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking
Book SynopsisAs heard on BBC Radio 4 and RTE Radio 1 A WATERSTONES BEST FOOD AND DRINK BOOK OF 2022 'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit' Prof David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Still, it wasn't very good for him: the doctor made that clear. If you lined them up, Adrian must have knocked back three miles of drinks. How many of them had he genuinely wanted? A mile? There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.Trade ReviewLikeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful * Observer *Honest, funny and full of strategies on how to moderate your drinking, Chiles is genuinely passionate about his pints and the need to enjoy them without ever coming across as preachy - a fine line many have failed to tread ... sage ... funny and touching * Independent *A fascinating read * Irish Times *An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit -- Prof David Nutt, author * Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health *A humorous and heartfelt exploration of the pleasures of drinking in moderation -- Waterstones Best Food and Drink Books of 2022Adrian is a good and engaging writer so the book is a pleasure to read, and there is lots to digest for anyone considering or practicing moderate or mindful drinking * Women and Home *A great read -- Miriam O'Callaghan * RTE *Chiles's self-deprecation may be stage-managed, but the underlying modesty is real. Sitting alongside his propensity to admit his ignorance is an attractive willingness to listen to anyone, of any age or social station, who might tell him something meaningful ... This is why Adrian Chiles is beautiful * Gawker *The UK's only good columnist * TRASHFUTURE *
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Profile Books Ltd The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking
Book SynopsisAs heard on BBC Radio 4 'Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful' Observer 'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit' Prof David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation. The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Still, it wasn't very good for him: the doctor made that clear. If you lined them up, Adrian must have knocked back three miles of drinks. How many of them had he genuinely wanted? A mile? There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.Trade ReviewA WATERSTONES BEST FOOD AND DRINK BOOK OF 2022 * : *Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful * Observer *Honest, funny and full of strategies on how to moderate your drinking, Chiles is genuinely passionate about his pints and the need to enjoy them without ever coming across as preachy - a fine line many have failed to tread ... sage ... funny and touching * Independent *A fascinating read * Irish Times *An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit -- Prof David Nutt, author * Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health *A humorous and heartfelt exploration of the pleasures of drinking in moderation -- Waterstones Best Food and Drink Books of 2022A great read -- Miriam O'Callaghan * RTE *Chiles's self-deprecation may be stage-managed, but the underlying modesty is real. Sitting alongside his propensity to admit his ignorance is an attractive willingness to listen to anyone, of any age or social station, who might tell him something meaningful ... This is why Adrian Chiles is beautiful * Gawker *
£9.49
Lexington Books Stoneover: The Observed Lessons and Unanswered
Book SynopsisStoneover: The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization examines the political and social entrepreneurs that champion marijuana decriminalization efforts, their constituents’ attitudes toward legalization, the specific successful reform measures at the state level, and the consequent market dynamics in cannabis commerce. Each chapter presents a unique dataset with specific contributions in understanding local and national trends and outcomes of more than two decades of cannabis legalization efforts. Using detailed analyses of user data, the contributors tackle such social issues as legalization activism in the context of calls to defund the police, the impact of reforms on immigrant communities, the demographic and economic characteristics of legal dispensary customers, medical administrative structures, youth usage, and mortality related to marijuana and other drug use. Stoneover offers policy makers information for future policy designs with a goal to decrease negative externalities and social inequity.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Political Polarization and Cannabis Legalization by Paul Musgrave and Clyde WilcoxChapter 2: The Cannabis Strain: Marijuana Prohibition in an Age of Police Defunding by Robert HardawayChapter 3: Seeing Through the Haze: Using Intersectionality to Reveal Systematic Differences in Support for Marijuana Decriminalization by Geoffrey WhitebreadChapter 4: The Politics of Marijuana, Immigration, and Latinos by Joe R. Tafoya and Melissa R. MichelsonChapter 5: Implementing Social Equity: Opportunities and Challenges from Marijuana Legalization in Massachusetts by Jeffrey MoyerChapter 6: Bureaucratic Structures and Policy Implementation Challenges in Medical Cannabis by Céline MavrotChapter 7: Consumer Well-Being and Cannabis Spending Habits: Evidence from Massachusetts by D. Steven White, Catharine M. Curran, Paul Bacdayan, and Marion McNabbChapter 8: Exaggerated Panic or Valid Concerns? Post-Legalization Youth Drug Use by Renee Scherlen and José Antonio Cisneros-TiradoChapter 9: Using Administrative and Survey Data to Evaluate the Impact of Changing Marijuana Laws and Policies on Marijuana Use, Treatment Admissions for Marijuana, and Mortality Related to Marijuana and Other Drug Use by Maggie Martin, Rebecca Ivester, Jesse Mishra, Maryam Salihu, Sonja Richard and Ryan KlingChapter 10: The Unintended Consequences of Marijuana Decriminalization on Illegal Commerce and the Opioid Crisis by Nikolay Anguelov, Michael P. McCarthy and Thalia Valkanos
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company
Book SynopsisNow a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep – and deeply needed – look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks 'Essential reading' New York Times Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and explains how a nation has become enslaved to prescription drugs. This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue, encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers. The drug's dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to numb the pain of of joblessness and the need to pay the bills. Macy tries to answer a grieving mother's question – why her only son died – and comes away with a harrowing tale of greed and need.Trade ReviewA shocking investigation... [Dopesick] is essential. The urgency of its message is compounded by the fact that as I write this, the latest figures show the number of deaths in England and Wales due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl rose by 29 per cent in 2017' * The Times *Essential reading... Macy follows one specific drug through the range of problems it has caused, the people it has hurt, the difficulties in fighting it and the glimmers of hope that remain' -- Janet Maslin, New York TimesBeth Macy seeks the very hearts of the people who are running the long marathons of struggle and survival – of Life. Dopesick is another deep – and deeply needed – look into the troubled soul of America -- Tom HanksAn urgent, eye-opening look at a problem that promises to grow much worse in the face of inaction and indifference * Kirkus Reviews *Macy potently mixes statistics and hard data with tragic stories of individual sufferers, as well as those who love and attempt to treat them... Forceful and comprehensive' * Publishers Weekly *A crucial and many-faceted look at a still-unfolding national crisis... A timely and necessary read' * Booklist *Beth Macy's powerful work of reportage... Dopesick goes to the heart of one of the most urgent problems of our time' * The Tablet *Essential to understanding not just the epidemic of opioid addiction and death, but also how America and Big Pharma work... Macy's narrative is a mosaic of suffering and bereavement' * Literary Review *A gripping, heartbreaking and enraging tale of ruined lives and the corporate greed that led to a nationwide epidemic of painkiller addiction * The Oldie. *Macy's reportage shows how unscrupulous drug companies helped to hook America on painkillers. Drugs are the leading cause of death for the under-fifties, above guns and car accidents; Macy puts human faces on to the grim statistics * The Times, Books of the Year. *Macy's harrowing account of the opioid epidemic, in which hundreds of thousands have already died, masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference * New York Times, Books of the Year *Comprehensive, compassionate and forceful. No matter what you already know about the opioid crisis, its toughness and intimacy make it a must' New York Times, Critics * Picks of the Year *Shifting effortlessly between the socio-political and the personal, Macy weaves a complex tale that unfolds with all the pace of a thriller, her deep journalism – interviews with dealers, police officers, activists, local politicians as well as users and their families – matched by a sense of barely suppressed anger at what is happening... It may make you weep; it will almost certainly make you angry' * Observer *Beth Macy's book, told in the manner of a pace thriller, is a shocking investigation into where and how things got to be this bad... It wouldn't surprise me if it wins a Pulitzer... Essential' * The Times *I've read a few books about the opioid crisis in America and this might be the best... [Macy] does a brilliant job. [She] follows the epidemic – from the pharmaceutical industry to the doctors, the drug dealers, the victims. She gets it all' * Evening Standard *An unflinching look at the opioid crisis in the US... Truly shocking in some places, Dopesick is a wake-up call for doctors and the pharmaceutical industry' * British Journal of General Practice *
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Vintage Publishing Ten Trips: The New Reality of Psychedelics
Book SynopsisNeuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.'An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended' Anil Seth, author of Being You‘A collection of tales from the far frontiers of psychedelic experience . . . superb . . . brilliant’ Charles Foster, TLSPsychedelics have made a comeback but remain a mystery. They are now a 'breakthrough therapy' for mental illness but in truth we have only a vague idea how they work and there is a limit to what the science can reveal. To have any hope of understanding them, we must broaden our view - dramatically - of what they actually are.In this daring, perception-shifting odyssey, clinical neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different drugs in ten different settings, journeying from a London neuroimaging lab to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend's basement kitchen. His encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con men, psychonauts and shamans, as well as with the drugs themselves, reveal the reality of psychedelics in all their strangeness, hilarity, darkness and wonder.'Original and thrilling ... achieving profound insights' Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts'A hair-raising hurtle of a ride' Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of Grass'Utterly compelling ... like having an out of body experience' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'The psychedelic world has been waiting for this book' Professor Erika DyckTrade ReviewAn incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended -- Anil Seth, author of Being YouAn original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights into their essential qualities -- Mike Jay, author of PsychonautsUtterly compelling. Some books are in a category of their own and this is one them. Reading it is like having an out of body experience -- Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff MattersA hair-raising hurtle of a ride into the belly of the psychedelic renaissance, fuelled by spectacular prose -- Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of GrassBeguiling, captivating, mind-expanding. It's impossible to read this book and not be tempted to replicate some of its wild, sanity-stretching forays into the peculiarities of human perception -- Stuart Ritchie, author of Science FictionsA dazzling, timely book, as deep and poignant as it is madcap and hilarious -- Professor Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, University College LondonCanny and somewhat sceptical ... rigorous and penetrating ... illuminating ... All the better for its gritty and earthbound aspects, this is a wonderful book, a journey into the nature and potential of consciousness itself, and of life on this troubled and monopolised planet * Literary Review *Philosophical and darkly humorous ... for all the mystical experiences [psychedelics] afford, divesting them of their shadow side does seekers a disservice, Mitchell holds * Spectator *A thoughtful guide ... Ten Trips is a powerful reminder that psychedelics can’t be made sense of entirely within a framework of chemical interactions in the brain. We need to view them as something potent, to be respected * New Scientist *In Ten Trips, Andy Mitchell captures psychedelics' gonzo spirit and speaks to the psychonaut in all of us -- Katherine MacLean, author Midnight Water: A Psychedelic MemoirEagle-eyed, poetic and always playful, Ten Trips is chock-full of profane illumination -- Tehseen Noorani, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of AucklandA gifted writer with a great ear for dialogue. Mitchell is not afraid to put himself in the telling, and it is this that makes Ten Trips true and real -- Michael Taussig, author of Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of MeltdownMitchell's decapod of delirious drug experiences is an antidote to the hype and a rallying cry to keep psychedelics . . . psychedelic -- Josh Hardman, Psychedelic AlphaThe psychedelic world has been waiting for this book: a sceptic's account of the allure of psychedelics -- Erika Dyck, Professor in History of Health & Social Justice, University of Saskatchewan
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Vintage Publishing Ten Trips: The New Reality of Psychedelics
Book SynopsisNeuropsychologist Andy Mitchell punctures the hype around psychedelic drugs while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.'An incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended' Anil Seth, author of Being You‘A collection of tales from the far frontiers of psychedelic experience . . . superb . . . brilliant’ Charles Foster, TLSPsychedelics have made a comeback but remain a mystery. They are now a 'breakthrough therapy' for mental illness but in truth we have only a vague idea how they work and there is a limit to what the science can reveal. To have any hope of understanding them, we must broaden our view - dramatically - of what they actually are.In this daring, perception-shifting odyssey, clinical neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different drugs in ten different settings, journeying from a London neuroimaging lab to the Colombian Amazon via Silicon Valley and his friend's basement kitchen. His encounters with scientists and gangsters, venture capitalists and con men, psychonauts and shamans, as well as with the drugs themselves, reveal the reality of psychedelics in all their strangeness, hilarity, darkness and wonder.'Original and thrilling ... achieving profound insights' Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts'A hair-raising hurtle of a ride' Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of Grass'Utterly compelling ... like having an out of body experience' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'The psychedelic world has been waiting for this book' Professor Erika DyckTrade ReviewAn incisive, deeply personal and beautifully written account of the power, the uses and the modern misuses of psychedelics. Highly recommended -- Anil Seth, author of Being YouAn original and thrilling investigation into psychedelics and the claims that currently surround them, achieving profound insights into their essential qualities -- Mike Jay, author of PsychonautsUtterly compelling. Some books are in a category of their own and this is one them. Reading it is like having an out of body experience -- Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff MattersA hair-raising hurtle of a ride into the belly of the psychedelic renaissance, fuelled by spectacular prose -- Henry Shukman, author of One Blade of GrassBeguiling, captivating, mind-expanding. It's impossible to read this book and not be tempted to replicate some of its wild, sanity-stretching forays into the peculiarities of human perception -- Stuart Ritchie, author of Science Fictions
£14.24
Aeon Books Ltd The Psychedelic Renaissance
£49.50
FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS Wild Horses
Book SynopsisWild Horses is a brutally powerful, unflinching account of the heroin epidemic that swept across Catalonia in the 1980s. The novel, told from a variety of points of view, tells the story of a group of friends as they buy, sell, and consume heroin and other drugs in their home town. Wild Horses is a kaleidoscope of voices, stories, song lyrics and heartbreakingly all-too-real characters. It is a true classic of modern story-telling that is both shocking and captivating at the same time.
£10.44
VeloPress Spitting in the Soup
Book SynopsisDoping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don't take shortcuts. But this tidy view swindles sports fans. While we may want the world sorted into villains and victims, putting the blame on athletes alone ignores decades of history in which teams, coaches, governments, the media, scientists, sponsors, sports federations, and even spectators have played a role. The truth about doping in sports is messy and shocking because it holds a mirror to our own reluctance to spit in the soup-that is, to tell the truth about the spectacle we crave. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson
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A A Grapevine, Incorporated Sobriedad emocional: Más allá del horizonte
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A A Grapevine, Incorporated Oración Y Meditación: Miembros de AA comparten
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A A Grapevine, Incorporated The Home Group: Heartbeat of AA: The 30th
Book SynopsisThe Home Group: Heartbeat of AA, the 30th Anniversary Edition is a collection of previously published stories from AA Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous. AA members share moving experiences about the importance and joys of belonging to an AA group. This updated anniversary edition includes extra stories and a brand-new chapter on virtual meetings, showing how members have adapted to meet new challenges. A great way to start an AA meeting.
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A A Grapevine, Incorporated Fun in Sobriety: Learning to live sober and enjoy
Book SynopsisFrom AA Grapevine, inspiring stories about how getting sober can lead to a rich, rewarding life. Fun in Sobriety features 50-plus inspiring stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they've learned to have a good time. Getting sober is not easy, but through taking action and developing a sober network, life can begin to take on new, exciting adventures. The stories in this book show how AA members have enhanced their lives now that they're sober. Chapters include: travel (road trips, cruises, etc.), outdoor activities (hiking, biking, camping), arts & hobbies (dancing, singing, painting, carpentry), social events (parties, holidays, events) and, of course interesting AA activities and sober events.
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Springer International Publishing AG What Do Needle and Syringe Programs Do?: An
Book SynopsisThis book explores the lived experiences of people who interact with needle and syringe program services in Western Sydney, Australia, including participants and industry workers. It locates the research within the wider context of harm reduction and drug policies. It addresses the question "what do needle and syringe programs do?" and seeks to unpack the agency of human and non-human factors to consider the ‘more than human’ effects of these programmes. Alongside a critical materialist perspective used to interpret the empirical findings, the book demonstrates that needle and syringe programs create new possibilities for engaging with the world by changing the material conditions of illicit drug consumption. It draws on the conceptual contributions of post-humanist thinking from assemblage theory, actor-network theory, and cognate scholarship. Consideration is given to transferable findings and insights for international contexts. The book speaks to scholars and postgraduate students in the areas such as sociology, criminology, social work, critical public health, cultural studies, and related fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What do needle and syringe programs do?.- Chapter 1 Beyond needles: the work done by engagements with service provision.- Chapter 2 The harm reduction subject and demarginalisation.- Chapter 3 Tarred with the same brush: The courtesy stigma of care.- Chapter 4 Assembling the effects of harm reduction services.- Conclusion: What needle and syringe programs do?.
£34.99
Springer International Publishing AG Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Drugs in historical and contemporary contexts: Legal, cultural, scientific, and geographical.- Drugs and medications.- 4. Meeting points.- 5. Possessing drugs.- 6. Avoiding The Junkie.- 7. Staying appropriate.- 8. Behaving with children.- 8. Behaving with children.- 10. Appropriate drugs.- 11. Negotiating addiction.- 12. Happy using drugs?.- 13. Conclusion.
£33.24
JOVIS Verlag Narcotic Cities: Counter-Cartographies of Drugs
Book SynopsisWith debates about the decriminalization of drugs on the rise, an exploration of drug maps is long overdue. Narcotic Cities traces the complex entanglements of drugs, institutions, activities, and the way they are represented with spaces and places, shedding new light on our cities. Through the medium of graphic essays, this book explores urban stories, as well as the histories, policies, communities, digital spaces, and pleasures associated with drugs, gathering together more than forty contributors working with Geographic Information Systems, hand drawings, satellite images, and memories. By experimenting with different graphic languages, this volume assembles a rich mosaic of multi-scalar urban perspectives on drugs, sharing little-known knowledge as well as reflections on the pitfalls, omissions, and failures of drug cartographies.
£28.90
United Nations Narcotic Drugs 2021 (English/French/Spanish
Book SynopsisThis publication contains information about the licit movement of the internationally controlled narcotic drugs included in the Schedules of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This includes information on cultivation of opiate raw materials, on extraction of alkaloids from opium, poppy straw and concentrate of poppy straw; on the manufacture of consumption, utilization, and stocks of opiates and opioids; and international global trade in narcotic drugs as well as in individual countries/territories. The publication also contains the estimated requirements of narcotic drugs for each country and territory.Le préambule de la Convention unique de 1961 souligne la préoccupation des États pour la santé et le bien-être de l'humanité. Cette affirmation fondamentale est suivie par la reconnaissance de l'usage médical des stupéfiants et de leur rôle indispensable dans le soulagement de la douleur, ce dont les pays ont besoin pour assurer la disponibilité et prendre des dispositions adéquates. Ces principes ont été réaffirmés dans la Convention sur les substances psychotropes de 1971, dans laquelle il a été ajouté que, s'il était nécessaire de limiter l'utilisation de substances contrôlées à des fins légitimes, leur disponibilité n'aurait pas dû être restreinte indûment. Près de soixante ans après cette proclamation officielle, l'objectif de garantie de la disponibilité n'est toujours pas atteint dans de nombreux pays où des personnes souffrent encore ou meurent de douleur ou n'ont pas accès aux médicaments dont elles ont besoin. Le déséquilibre dans la disponibilité des analgésiques opioïdes est particulièrement préoccupant, car les données montrent que de nombreuses affections nécessitant une prise en charge de la douleur, notamment le cancer, prévalent et augmentent dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire.El preámbulo de la Convención Única de 1961 destaca la preocupación de los Estados por la salud y el bienestar de la humanidad. Esta afirmación fundamental es seguida por el reconocimiento del uso médico de los estupefacientes y su papel indispensable en el alivio del dolor para el cual los países necesitan asegurar la disponibilidad y proporcionar la provisión adecuada. Estos principios se reafirmaron en el Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotrópicas de 1971 en el que se agregó que, si bien era necesario restringir el uso de sustancias controladas a fines legítimos, su disponibilidad no debería haberse restringido indebidamente. Después de casi sesenta años desde la proclamación oficial, el objetivo de asegurar la disponibilidad aún es difícil de alcanzar en muchos países donde las personas aún sufren o mueren de dolor o no tienen acceso a los medicamentos que necesitan. El desequilibrio en la disponibilidad de analgésicos opioides es particularmente preocupante, ya que los datos muestran que muchas de las afecciones que requieren manejo del dolor, en particular el cáncer, son prevalentes y aumentan en los países de ingresos bajos y medios.
£99.20
United Nations Report of the International Narcotics Control
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£42.46
United Nations Precursors and chemicals frequently used in the
Book SynopsisThis report summarises the actions taken by Governments and by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on precursors to prevent chemical diversion and to implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. The Report contains an account of the activities carried out during the reporting period; provides an overview of the major trends and developments in licit trade and trafficking in and illicit use of individual chemicals; contains a summary of seizures, cases of suspicious and stopped shipments, and diversions or attempted diversions; and details activities associated with illicit drug manufacture
£38.21
United Nations Psychotropic Substances 2022
Book Synopsis
£79.20
United Nations World drug report 2023
Book SynopsisFor the first time since its conception, this year the World Drug Report presents the latest global, regional and subregional estimates of and trends in drug demand and supply in a user-friendly, interactive online format. The new online segment is designed to both enhance and simplify access to the wealth of information provided in the report by presenting the data in the form of succinct key messages supported by interactive graphs, infographics, and maps. Booklet 1 takes the form of an executive summary that sets out points of special interest and policy implications based on analysis of the key findings of the online segment and the thematic booklet 2 and the conclusions that can be drawn from them. The World Drug Report 2023 is aimed not only at fostering greater international cooperation to counter the impact of the world drug problem on health, governance, and security, but also at assisting Member States in anticipating and addressing threats posed by drug markets and mitigating their consequences
£139.20
