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Book SynopsisThe third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and updated by Samenow for publication. Systematic, probing and repeated interviews were used as the vehicle for gathering information on common mental themes among men apprehended and sentenced for criminal acts.... Yochelson and Samenow attribute crime to a series of early irresponsible choices that predate drug use among drug-using criminals. Personality and personal choice variables are conceptualized as critical in initialing and maintaining use. In what is called an indiscriminate search for excitement, drug-using criminals are characterized as expanding their criminal repertoire while excusing their actions by rationalizations sometimes invented by sociologists, psychologists, and psych
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Our Odyssey with the Drug-Using Criminal Chapter 2 Man and Drugs: A Perspective on Drug Abuse Chapter 3 The Drug-Using Criminal's Way of Life Chapter 4 Toward A Conceptual Understanding: The High, The Nod, The Rush, Craving, and Addiction Chapter 5 Drugs As Facilitators Chapter 6 The Choice of A Drug Chapter 7 Treatment of the Drug User Chapter 8 The Drug-Using Criminal in a Program for Change
