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The biology of desire : why addiction is not a disease / by Lewis, Marc D.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.Defining addiction : a battleground of opinions -- A brain designed for addiction -- When craving comes to power : Natalie's story -- The tunnel of attention : Brian's romance with meth -- Donna's secret identity -- Johnny needs a drink -- Nothing for Alice : the double-edged sword of self-control -- Biology, biography, and addition -- Developing beyond addiction."Neuroscientist Lewis (Memoirs of an Addicted Brain) presents a strong argument against the disease model of addiction, which is currently predominant in medicine and popular culture alike, and bolsters it with informative and engaging narratives of addicts' lives ... Even when presenting more technical information, Lewis shows a keen ability to put a human face on the most groundbreaking research into addiction. Likewise, he manages to make complex findings and theories both comprehensible and interesting...This book, written with hopeful sincerity, will intrigue both those who accept its thesis and those who do not."--
Subjects: Substance abuse; Compulsive behavior; Addicts; Drug abuse.; Drug addicts.; Neurosciences.;
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Drugs without the hot air : making sense of legal and illegal drugs / by Nutt, David J.,1951-author.;
Why I had to write this book -- Is ecstasy more dangerous than horse riding? -- How can we measure the harms done by drugs? -- Why do people take drugs? -- Cannabis, from the medicine of Queens to public enemy number one? -- Synthetic cannabinoids - the problem of "spice" -- If alcohol were discovered today, would it be legal? -- "Meow, meow" - should mephedrone have been banned? -- What is addiction? Is there an "addictive personality"? -- Can addiction be cured? -- Cocaine - from chewing to crack -- Why was smoking banned in public places? -- Vaping and snus - to vape or not to vape? -- Prescription drugs; the US opioid crisis -- Can drugs improve physical and mental performance? -- Psychedelics, and their use in treating dpression -- The War on Drugs, and drugs in war -- NPS - novel psychoactive substances -- The future of drugs -- What should I tell my kids about drugs?The second edition of Drugs without the hot air looks at the science to allow anyone to make rational decisions based on objective evidence.
Subjects: Drug abuse.; Drugs of abuse.; Drug abuse; Drug addicts; Drug addicts;
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Meth / by Edwards, Sue Bradford,author.; Gale (Firm);
Includes bibliographical references and index.ch. 1. Fighting fire -- ch. 2. About meth -- ch. 3. Meth and the brain -- ch. 4. Other physical effects -- ch. 5. Personal effects -- ch. 6. Quitting meth -- ch. 7. Legal consequences -- ch. 8. The current situation.This book explores the effects of meth on the body, examines the laws and policies surrounding it, and discusses the road to recovery. A glossary of key words, an index, Infographics, informative sidebars, and reviewed sources for further research are also provided.Description based on print version record.
Subjects: Drug abuse; Drug addiction; Drug control; Methamphetamine;
On-line resources: http://libproxy.kirtland.edu:2048/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/82TA/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Women on ice : methamphetamine use among suburban women / by Boeri, Miriam.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.Methamphetamine: The perfect drug for suburban women -- Ethnographic research: Exploring methamphetamine use in the suburbs -- The gendered drug career: Initiation and progression in methamphetamine use -- Gendered lives: Combining work and family with drug-using roles -- Gendered risks: Health and infectious diseases -- Gendered risks: Violence and crime -- The revolving door: Treatment, recovery, and relapse -- Policy implications -- Appendix A: Methodological process -- Appendix B: The drug career typology.Methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shard) has been called epidemic in the United States. Yet few communities were ready for increased use of methamphetamine by suburban women. This book studies exclusively the lives of women who use the drug and its effects on their families. In-depth interviews with women in the suburban counties of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. chronicle the details of their initiation into methamphetamine, the turning points into problematic drug use, and for a few, their escape from lives veering out of control. Their life course and drug careers are analyzed in relation to the intersecting influences of social roles, relationships, social/political structures, and political trends. Examining the effects of punitive drug policy, inadequate social services, and looming public health risks, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C, the book gives voice to women silenced by shame. Here the author introduces new and developing concepts in the field of addiction studies and proposes policy changes to more broadly implement initiatives that address the problems these women face. She asserts that if we are concerned that the war on drugs is a war on drug users, this book will alert us that it is also a war on suburban families.
Subjects: Women; Methamphetamine abuse; Suburbanites; Women drug addicts; Drug addiction;
© ©2013., Rutgers University Press,
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Never enough : the neuroscience and experience of addiction / by Grisel, Judith.;
"Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor Judy Grisel has reached a fundamental conclusion: for the addict, there will never be enough drugs. The brain's capacity to learn and adapt is seemingly infinite, allowing it to counteract any regular disruption, including that caused by drugs. What begins as a normal state punctuated by periods of being high transforms over time into a state of desperate craving that is only temporarily subdued by a fix, explaining why addicts are unable to live either with or without their drug. One by one, Grisel shows how different drugs act on the brain, the kind of experiential effects they generate, and the specific reasons why each is so hard to kick. Grisel's insights lead to a better understanding of the brain's critical contributions to addictive behavior, and will help inform a more rational, coherent, and compassionate response to the epidemic in our homes and communities"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Brain food -- Adaptation -- One salient example: THC -- Dream weavers: opiates -- The sledgehammer: alcohol -- The downer class: tranquilizers -- Pick me ups: stimulants -- Seeing clearly now: psychedelics -- A will and a way: other abused drugs -- Why me? -- Solving addiction."Set apart by its color, candor, and bell-clear writing, Never Enough is a revelatory look at the roles drugs play in all of our lives and offers crucial new insight into how we can solve the epidemic of abuse" - Amazon.com.
Subjects: Drug addiction; Substance abuse;
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Sweetgirl / by Mulhauser, Travis,1976-;
As a blizzard bears down, Percy James sets off to find her troubled mother, Carletta. For years, Percy has had to take care of herself and Mama -- a woman who's been unraveling for as long as her daughter can remember. Fearing Carletta is strung out on meth and won't survive the storm, Percy heads for Shelton Potter's cabin, deep in the woods of northern Michigan. But when Percy arrives, there is no sign of Carletta. Searching the house, she finds Shelton and his girlfriend drugged into oblivion -- and a crying baby girl left alone in a freezing room upstairs. From the moment the baby wraps a tiny hand around her finger, Percy knows she must save her -- a split-second decision that commences a dangerous odyssey in which she must battle the elements and evade Shelton and a small band of desperate criminals hell-bent on getting that baby back. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother's affliction, and come to find her own fate tied more and more inextricably to that of the baby she is determined to save.
Subjects: Teenage girls; Infant girls; Mothers and daughters; Children of drug addicts; Child abuse; Rescues; Blizzards;
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Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety, addiction and depression : everything you need to know about treating depression, social anxiety, addictions, trauma, OCD, irrational phobias, health, social negative thinking, intrusive thoughts / by Joyce, William E.;
At least one in five adults in the US experiences some form of mental illness every year--a clear indication that the number of Americans who are battling mental illnesses is on an upward trajectory. This reality has called upon various methods of treatment, but none seems as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT is a method of treatment that embraces the best aspects of both talk therapy and behavioral therapy. It has been exceedingly successful because it offers a lot of flexibility and the results are long-lasting--a stark contrast to most other forms of treatments such as medication, which can be rigid, expensive, and not to mention, cyclical. According to CBT practitioners, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are intertwined. A person's feelings are informed by their perceptions, which might be accurate or distorted. Hence, CBT steps in to expose cognitive distortions and promote positive thoughts, thus effectively restoring mental health.What is cognitive behavioral therapy? -- How cognitive behavioral therapy helps treat depression -- How cognitive behavioral therapy helps treat generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder -- How cognitive behavioral therapy helps treat OCD -- How cognitive behavioral therapy helps treat PTSD -- How cognitive behavioral therapy helps treat addiction.
Subjects: Cognitive therapy.; Anxiety disorders; Depression, Mental; Drug addiction;
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Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / by Macy, Beth.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-363) and index.The People v. Purdue. The United States of Amnesia -- Swag 'n' Dash -- Message board memorial -- "The corporation feels no pain" -- Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Suburban sprawl -- "Like shooting Jesus" -- FUBI -- "Shit don't stop" -- "A broken system". Whack-a-mole -- Liminality -- Hope on a spreadsheet -- "Brother, wrong or right" -- Outcasts and inroads -- Epilogue: Soldier's Disease.Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, journalist Beth Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother's question -- why her only son died -- and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. The unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus.
Subjects: Opioid abuse; Medication abuse; Oxycodone.; Oxycodone abuse; Opioid-Related Disorders.;
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The meth lunches : food and longing in an American city / by Foster, Kim(Food writer),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The care + feeding of a drug addict -- Surveillance of humans + their food -- Hunger, hoarding + having enough -- Food that is fast + full of meaning -- Charity, the giving + taking of food -- Food + housing, conjoined + inseparable twins -- The limits + liabilities of feeding people lunch -- Inconvenient people + the starving brain -- Slippage + the discomfort of food -- Lunch + the braided-up life."James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal complex reality when poverty and food intersect. Whether it's heirloom vegetables or a block of neon yellow government cheese, food is both a basic necessity and nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities, our cultures, and our place in the world. The Meth Lunches gives a glimpse into the lives of people living in Foster's Las Vegas community--the grocery store cashier who feels safer surrounded by food after surviving a childhood of hunger; the inmate baking a birthday cake with coffee creamer and Sprite; the unhoused woman growing scallions in the slice of sunlight on her passenger seat. This is what food looks like in the lives of real people. The Meth Lunches reveals stories of dysfunction intertwined with hope, of the insurmountable obstacles and fierce determination all playing out on the plates of ordinary people. It's a bold invitation to pull up a chair and reconsider our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. Welcome to the table"--
Subjects: People with social disabilities; Food security; Hunger; Drug addiction;
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The addicted brain : why we abuse drugs, alcohol, and nicotine / by Kuhar, Michael J.;
Includes bibliographical references.What's in this book, and why should I read it? -- Hardwired: what animals tell us about the human desire for drugs -- Feeling good: the brain's own reward system -- The ABCs of drug action in the brain -- The dark side develops! -- Why are drugs so powerful? -- The brain is changed, for a long time! -- Could I become an addict? -- Stress, social status, and drugs -- Gambling, sex, and food -- What else do drugs do to me? -- Women and adolescents -- Treatment: how do I get better? -- What does the future hold?"Addiction destroys lives. In The Addicted Brain, a leading neuroscientist explains how and why this happens--and presents advances in treatment and prevention. Using breathtaking brain imagery and other research, Michael Kuhar, Ph. D., shows the powerful, long-term brain changes that drugs can cause, revealing why it can be so difficult for addicts to escape their grip."--P. [4] of jacket.
Subjects: Substance abuse; Brain.; Substance-Related Disorders; Brain;
© 2012., FT Press,
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