Drug induced: Addiction and Treatment in Perspective - Softcover

Harris, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903855535 ISBN 13: 9781903855539

Publisher: Russell House Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Addiction has become enshrined in the professional and public mind as an intractable biological disorder that can be adequately addressed by limiting current practice to medical models and criminal justice interventions. In this collection of widely acclaimed articles and lectures. Phil Harris re-examines the origin, validity and limits of current practice, and exposes the detrimental impact of the narrow set of concerns we bring to addiction and its treatment. In doing so he challenges the preoccupations of national policy and international research, demonstrating how addiction is the product of deeper human concerns of identity, meaning and exclusion. The specially reworked articles offer innovative perspectives for understanding addiction and how we should respond to it at individual and organisational levels. It reaches out beyond clinical approaches in an open and accessible style, and will resonate with the experience of practitioners as well as those personally affected by addiction - users and ex-users, and their concerned families and friends.

About this title

About the Author:

Phil Harris is an independent writer who has worked as a practitioner and manager in direct access drug services for over ten years. He has designed and delivered internationally recognised treatment programmes and accredited training courses. Having worked as a drugs advisor in Sweden, Holland and Macedonia, he continues to practise in the south west of England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Russell House Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1903855535
• ISBN 13: 9781903855539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149