Anthology of Monographs on Addiction Studies


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Rick Biesada picks up where the mundane Clinton biographers left off . . . or were too timid to delve into. He pulls no punches in his scholarly review of his encounter with Hillary, where he worked as a bouncer in a Chicago bar. Back in the old days . . . when we served alcohol to minors and bred red-blooded American men . . . not little pudgy nerds running around in fanny packs. Angry White Male and the Horse He Rode In On, was inspired in part by the Clinton Impeachment as a tribute to the House Managers. The disgusting bias and contemptuous farce from our elected officials and their parasitic cohorts in the media, showed that our nation would never be great again. The components are no longer there. We've lost our resolve. President Clinton wasn't on trial, our rule of law was on trial and these Jackasses disintegrated the defining moment' of our rule of law. Most citizens don't know about or care about our heritage now that we've evolved into a complacent society of victims. Fortunately, there are a few people still around to protect our freedom and sovereignty. This non-fiction book of political satire and factual history as witnessed by Mr. Biesada, [an education you'll never learn in school] is intended to restore hope and teach generations of Americans, who don't quite understand our heritage to get some order about themselves and hold our elected officials accountable when they violate the public trust.




Marijuana Impaired Youths


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There are many 1iteratures that offer insight on substance abuse treatment, yet very few have targeted specific treatment protocol for youths. Marijuana is the national youth drug of choice. Our society has a very liberal view of marijuana. As a result, we generally tend to undermine the serious problems of marijuana addiction among our youths. Marijuana is undoubtedly a major gateway drug to other letha1 drugs, but its ability to stymie ambition, productivity, and hope among youths continues to receive second-hand consideration in our national social problems. Many youths abuse marijuana, yet there are no treatment programs specifically targeted to treating marijuana-addicted youths. As medical marijuana movement gathers momentum nation-wide, it is imperative that we prepare for potential consequences of the misconceptions of medical marijuana. A recent CNN poll indicated that 75% of Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana with a view to taxing its sales and using the money to defray medication cost for seniors. This perverse intent to hide a bad motive underneath a good one if allowed to materialize wou1d have far-reaching consequences. Marijuana Impaired Youths is a c1inical handbook intended to educate the general public about the implicit and explicit dangers inherent in marijuana use and abuse. The book epitomizes the culmination of twelve years of clinica1 experience in working with marijuana abusing youths. The main objective of the book is to offer a desktop reference for addiction counselors, mentors, school counselors, teachers and parents for working with youths. The book uses vivid vignettes of real life clinical literary sketches to illustrate the challenge, cognitive damage, discomfiture and distortion a marijuana abusing youth faces. Most importantly, the sketches offer serious professional insight on how to confront and treat youths who abuse marijuana. The ultimate goal of the author is to educate counselors, youth mentors, teachers and parents on the dangers of marijuana.




Addiction Recovery Management


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Addiction Recovery Management: Theory, Research, and Practice is the first book on the recovery management approach to addiction treatment and post-treatment support services. Distinctive in combining theory, research, and practice within the same text, this ground-breaking title includes authors who are the major theoreticians, researchers, systems administrators, clinicians and recovery advocates who have developed the model. State-of-the art and the definitive text on the topic, Addiction Recovery Management: Theory, Research, and Practice is mandatory reading for clinicians and all professionals who work with patients in recovery or who are interested in the field.




The Recovering


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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.




Current Catalog


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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.




National Library of Medicine Current Catalog


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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.




Drugs, Clubs and Young People


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In this volume, contributors employ sociological and public health perspectives to offer insights into behaviours common at raves and nightclubs. The volume provides theoretical observations on illicit club drug use and supply, helping to challenge current orthodoxies on the role of drug use within young peoples' lives. Drawing material from the USA, UK and Hong Kong, the volume allows the demystification of stereotypical presentations surrounding young people who attend clubs and/or use club drugs. This work provides a badly needed and objective analysis of youthful drug use, and a foundation from which future sociological and public studies on young people, clubs and drugs - as well as young people themselves - will benefit.







Second Language Research


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Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars in SLA and supported by a wealth of examples from actual studies and extensive pedagogical resources, this book first introduces students to the key topics and debates in L2 research. It then guides readers step by step through the research process—from basic principles and collection methods through study design and reporting—to the point of being able to conduct their own research from beginning to end. This book is an essential text for students and novice researchers of SLA, applied linguistics, and second and foreign language teaching. Key Features A wealth of graphics, visuals, and exercises in each chapter. "Time to Think" and "Time to Do" boxes within chapters Helpful glossary and subject index New to This Edition Substantially reorganized chapters Significantly expanded chapters on qualitative and mixed methods Substantive revised material on computer/technology-based research Spotlights a variety of new software packages and databases, including video-mediated technology and games Discusses the Open Science Movement Expanded coverage of corpora, processing, and psycholinguistics-based research Updated references throughout




Books in Series


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Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.