New Books 2009 - 2010
This section provides a selection of recent Publications about Drugs and Addictions in English language. For German books, English decriptions are provided.
See also new books of the years 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004
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Gerhard Meyer, University of Bremen, Germany; Tobias Hayer, Mark Griffiths(Eds.)
Problem Gambling in Europe. Challenges, Prevention, and Interventions
Springer 2009
520 pp. ISBN: 978-0-387-09485-4
www.springer.com
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As a leisure activity, gambling dates back to ancient times. More recently, the surge in avenues for gambling—casinos, sports betting, lotteries, and remote media (e.g.,Internet, mobile phone, interactive television) among them—finds growing numbers of people losing control over their gambling behaviour, usually at great personal and financial expense. Problem Gambling in Europe is the first book to offer a robust international knowledge base compiled by an interdisciplinary panel of researchers in gambling behaviour.
Reports from 21 countries throughout Western, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe reveal wide variations in types of wagering activities, participation by populations, social and criminal consequences related to pathological gambling, the extent to which governments acknowledge the problem, and efforts to control it (often with the involvement of the gaming industries). For each country, noted experts discuss:
- Current legislation regulating gambling.
- Forms of gambling and their addictive potential.
- Participation rates and demographics.
- Prevalence of pathological gambling.
- National policies to address problem gambling.
- Prevention strategies and treatment methods.
Problem Gambling in Europe brings insight and clarity to a widespread and complex phenomenon, and will be of considerable interest to all parties working to reduce their negative effects: social science researchers in addictions, gambling behaviour, and public health; clinical, social, and health psychologists and psychiatrists; treatment practitioners; the gaming industry; regulators; and policy makers.
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Demetrovics, Z., Fountain, J., Kraus, L. (Eds.)
Old and New Policies, Theories, Research Methods and Drug Users Across Europe
Pabst Science Publishers 2009, 152 pages
ISBN 978-3-89967-583-2
www.pabst-science-publishers.com
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Substances like opium and cannabis have been taken in Europe for centuries. Over the decades, the introduction and widespread use of synthetic drugs, such as LSD and MDMA (ecstasy), has created new user groups and changed the patterns of use. Drugs, old or new, do not only have an impact on the individual in form of psychological disorders, but also on society’s reaction to their users. They create an illegal market with all its criminal side effects, and they trigger researchers to understand the phenomenon of drug use, changing patterns and spread.
This book reflects on patterns of and changes in the use of old and new drugs; it challenges the gateway theory, critically discusses the concept of dealers, and examines strategies of harm reduction for imprisoned offenders. In addition, it offers new approaches to old problems by bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative drug research. |
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Ryan Grim
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
Wiley 2009; 272 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0470167397
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| Admitting that "so much has been written on drug use and American culture that it would take weeks to roll all of that paper up and smoke it," journalist Grim plunges into the counterculture, the literature, the research, the opposition, the pharmaceutical interests, the media coverage, the kids and users, the heroes and the hypocrites to chart the evolution of drug use in America, covering every illegal high, taking on well-entrenched myths and turning up fascinating stories on current trends-beginning with the end of LSD. Backed by plenty of startling facts (i.e., 1984's drug-related criminal population was 30,000; by 1991 it was more than 150,000), Grim fashions a sharp critique of anti-drug programs ("exposure to anti-drug ads led to higher rates of first-time drug use among certain groups, such as fourteen-to-sixteen year olds and whites") and other policy decisions (President Clinton's approval of NAFTA led to an unprecedented influx of drugs across the Mexican border). Grim isn't all talk, however: he barely survives on-site research during drug riots in Bolivia, goes through a typically fraught trip on ayahuasca, and scouts the battlefields of the fight to legalize cannabis ("In San Francisco, pot clubs quickly outnumbered McDonald's franchises"). This lively, personable history should strike fans of Martin Torgoff's Can't Find My Way Home as a worthy follow-up. |
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Joseph Tramontana
Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Gambling, Weight Control and Smoking Cessation
Crown House Publishing; 1st edition 2009, 160 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0982357361
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There is a dearth of literature and training experiences on the use of hypnosis in the treatment of alcohol abuse/problem drinking, drug abuse, and gambling.
This book offers new strategies, techniques, and scripts for use with problem drinkers, alcoholism, drug addiction, and gambling addiction in an outpatient population. It also reviews old and new techniques or combinations of techniques, strategies, and scripts for other addictions. Five key addictions are addressed: alcohol abuse and dependency, drug abuse and addiction, gambling compulsions/obsessions and addictions, tobacco addiction (including cigars, pipes and chew), food addiction/compulsions.
Many of the techniques and strategies incorporate a variety of therapeutic modalities, including: cognitive-behavioral techniques, reframing and other NLP techniques, systematic desensitization, covert sensitization, 12-step-programs, guided imagery and meditation, and more. The techniques described can be employed both in and out of trance.
In summary, all of the strategies, techniques, and scripts herein have to do with helping clients take more effective control of their lives. |
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Gene M. Heyman
Addiction: A Disorder of Choice
Harvard University Press; 2009, 216 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0674032989
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In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction—that it is a disease, a compulsion beyond conscious control—is wrong.
Drawing on psychiatric epidemiology, addicts’ autobiographies, treatment studies, and advances in behavioral economics, Heyman makes a powerful case that addiction is voluntary. He shows that drug use, like all choices, is influenced by preferences and goals. But just as there are successful dieters, there are successful ex-addicts. In fact, addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest rate of recovery. But what ends an addiction?
At the heart of Heyman’s analysis is a startling view of choice and motivation that applies to all choices, not just the choice to use drugs. The conditions that promote quitting a drug addiction include new information, cultural values, and, of course, the costs and benefits of further drug use. Most of us avoid becoming drug dependent, not because we are especially rational, but because we loathe the idea of being an addict.
Heyman’s analysis of well-established but frequently ignored research leads to unexpected insights into how we make choices—from obesity to McMansionization—all rooted in our deep-seated tendency to consume too much of whatever we like best. As wealth increases and technology advances, the dilemma posed by addictive drugs spreads to new products. However, this remarkable and radical book points to a solution. If drug addicts typically beat addiction, then non-addicts can learn to control their natural tendency to take too much. |
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Dirk Hanson
The Chemical Carousel: What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction
BookSurge Publishing 2009; 1st edition. 472 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1439212998
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| Like it or not, the popular imagination still views addiction not so much as a disease, but as the product of a weak-willed lifestyle. But, as biological psychology indicates, the concept is much more complicated. Hanson begins with an overview of drugs--use and abuse, legal and illegal--and how they work on our brains, with a particularly astute look at the roles of dopamine and serotonin and how nerve receptors function. He then shifts into methods of treating the disease of addiction, sociological as well as medical. In a soothing bedside manner, Hanson serves forth the whole addiction picture without false promises or dire forecasts. We each have biochemical individuality while sharing neurochemical pathways of reward and relief and unconscientiously fashioning them to our desires: ways to feel good, molecular levels of bliss. Though Hanson's tone may be conversational, like an informal chat with an informed friend, he nonetheless takes readers through the science of brain function and explicates what is known about its chemistry, physiology and psychology. He looks at the pros and cons of today's pharmacopoeia, and gives a thorough, entertaining tour of the government's part in its creation. The author is equally engaging when it comes to the role of diet and exercise. Hanson also has much to say in the contest between criminalization and harm reduction, strategies that "aim for the creation of non-coercive, community-based recovery programs and resources for drug users." In all instances, he smartly summarizes the medical studies and gives sources to pursue investigation. |
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Richard S. Sandor
Thinking Simply About Addiction: A Handbook for Recovery
Tarcher 2009, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1585426881
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No social problem today causes greater confusion than addiction. Whatever form it takes—alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine, etc.—it tears apart homes and relationships, destroys careers and futures, and leaves loved ones asking: Why couldn’t he stop once and for all? Or “get better”? Or control himself?
Despite everything that’s been said and written, many people remain deeply confounded about these problems. The addiction-treatment field itself is in a state of civil war because there is no consensus on what addiction is, much less what to do about it.
Based on years of hard-won experience by a preeminent specialist in addictive behavior, Thinking Simply About Addiction explains the core truth of addiction: It is not a neurosis, a physical malady, a behavioral choice, or, in the narrowest sense, a moral failure. It is an “automatism”—an involuntary, non-stoppable behavior that once triggered leaves the addict powerless. It is a human problem and a part of human nature. As such, it is something that we all experience.
In four to-the-point chapters, Thinking Simply About Addiction rises above the noise level and provides real-world help and new ways of thinking for addicts and those who care for them. Its insights are so profoundly clear and sensible that many readers will be able to say: Finally, someone gets it. |
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Deborah McCloskey, Barbara Sinor, and Mark W. Parrino
Addiction--What's Really Going On?
Inside a Heroin Treatment Program
Loving Healing Press 2009, 224 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1932690934
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| Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey's heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs. Her counseling methods both endeared her as "the counselor to get" and locked her into a decade of searching for better ways to help those she felt were stuck on the merry-go-round of a methadone system. This book should be read by teachers, hospitals employees, college students, government officials, and our general adult population whether addicted, sober, or straight. |
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Harvey B. Milkman, Stanley G. Sunderwirth
Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration
Sage Publications, Inc. 2009 ; 496 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1412956734
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People from all walks of life often lose themselves in pursuing counterfeit pleasures-cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, thrill seeking, sex, food, gambling, and on-line fantasies to name just a few. How does the pursuit of pleasure result in compulsion and loss of control? Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs addresses this fundamental question and then explores positive ways to achieve lasting happiness and fulfillment. Readers will gain important insight on how to improve their own quality of life and will learn how to offer support to clients, students, family, and friends whose lives may be compromised by addiction.
Students of addictive behaviors and anyone interested in discovering healthy means to satisfy the drive to alter consciousness will find this book compelling. |
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Mark McGovern and Scott Edelstein
Living with Co-Occurring Addiction and Mental Health Disorders. A Handbook for Recovery
Hazelden; 1 edition 2009; 187 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1592857197
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Approximately 10 million people in the United States have a substance-related disorder and at least one other mental illness. Those who are dealing with a combination of these disorders are met with a powerful recipe for destruction, especially self-destruction. The good news is that there is help.
Drawing from an evidence-based program by internationally recognized pioneers in the integrated treatment of co-occurring disorders from the Dartmouth Medical School, Living with Co-occurring Addiction and Mental Health Disorders is the first handbook designed to inform and empower those with dual disorders, allowing each person to make decisions about his or her own treatment and recovery and sculpt a program that treats both disorders together. Key topics include:
• understanding the situation
• getting an assessment
• balancing the brain's chemistry
• finding the ideal treatment
• choosing and working with a therapist or counselor
• setting achievable goals and making positive changes within
• cognitive-behavioral therapy
Informative, thorough, and easy to follow, this book is designed to help the millions of people with dual disorders be their own best advocates for health and sanity, and build lives worth living. |
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Peter M. Miller
Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment
Academic Press; 1 edition 2009; 488 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0123743480
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The addictions treatment field is currently undergoing a period of increased scrutiny, upheaval and change. The growing emphasis on treatment accountability and cost effectiveness is leading to major changes in standards of care. Inconsistent practices based solely on clinical intuition rather than hard scientific evidence of treatment efficacy are rapidly becoming unacceptable.
Translating science-based treatments into clinical settings is an important priority in the addictions field and has been the subject of an influential Institute of Medicine report. Substance abuse treatment programs are now mandated to provide evidence-based treatments, with funding and insurance reimbursement contingent on their doing so.
Evidence-Based Addiction Treatment provides a state-of-the-art compilation of assessment and treatment practices with proven effectiveness. A substantial body of evidence is presented to provide students, academics and clinicians with specific science-based treatments that work. Written at a level appropriate for a variety of audiences, research studies are discussed but highly sophisticated knowledge in research methodology is not required. |
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Ace Backwords
Acid Heroes: The Legends of LSD
CreateSpace (May 21, 2009, 308 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1442122130
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| The psychedelic Sixties and the aftermath, as seen from the perspective of a fully-participating Berkeley acid head, along with an exploration of the credit and/or blame assigned to the Beatles, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Hunter S. Thompson, R. Crumb, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, and Carlos Castaneda. |
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Jane Fountain; Dirk J. Korf (eds)
Drugs in Society. European perspectives
Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing 2007
160 pp. ISBN: 1 84619 093 2
www.radcliffe-oxford.com
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| This unique overview of the variation in the ways recreational and other drugs are used across Europe includes critical reflections on current drug policy. Contributions from a wide range of professionals and academics in different countries offer a truly international perspective on the European situation. |
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Trevor Bennett, Katy Holloway
Drug-Crime connections
Cambridge University Press 2007
374 pp. ISBN-13: 9780521687140
www.cambridge.org/criminology
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| Drug-Crime Connections challenges the assumption that there is a widespread association between drug use and crime. Instead, it argues that there are many highly specific connections. The authors draw together in a single volume a wide range of findings from a study of nearly 5,000 arrestees interviewed as part of the New English and Welsh Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (NEW-ADAM) programme. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of drug-crime connections, as well as an investigation into drug use generally among criminals and the kinds of crimes that they commit. They explore topics that previously have fallen outside the drug-crime debate, such as gender and drugs, ethnicity and drugs, gangs, guns, drug markets, and treatment needs. The book provides both an up-to-date review of the literature and a concise summary of a major study on the connection between drug use and crime. |
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Richard MUSCAT, Thóroddur BJARNASSON, François BECK and Patrick PERETTI-WATEL
Risk factors in adolescent drug use: evidence from school surveys and application in policy.
Strasbourg: Councel of Europe Publishing, 2007
140 pp. ISBN: 978-92-871-6196-3
www.coe.int
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This book presents an analysis of the risk factors for substance use in Iceland, France and Malta. What are the risk factors in adolescent drug use? Can any reply be found in the school surveys and could this evidence be applied in policy?
It is to these questions that the authors, Richard Muscat, coordinator of the Pompidou Group Research Platform, Thoroddur Bjarnasson, Patrick Peretti-Wattel, sociologists and Francois Beck, a statistician and sociologist, attempt to reply. They first compile the needs of political decision makers and then use the ESPAD (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs) survey as a vehicle to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the risk factors for substance use in Iceland, France and Malta. Finally, the use of ESPAD data in science, the media and in public policy is tackled from the French experience. |
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Hamisch Sinclair
Drug treatment demand data - Influence on policy and practice
Strasbourg: Councel of Europe Publishing, 2007
120 pp. ISBN 978-92-871-6086-7
www.coe.int
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The Pompidou Group has advocated the systematic and routine collection of information on patients entering treatment for problem drug use (treatment demand data) since the mid-1980s. Two decades later, the question now being asked is whether or not this data has been used as evidence in the development of policies and practices. In this publication, authors Hamish Sinclair, Carlo Bertorello, Michela Rial and Dusan Nolimal, all members of the Pompidou Group research platform, attempt to answer this question. Three case studies describe how treatment demand data has been used in the development of drug policies and services in Ireland, Italy and Slovenia. One strong message coming out of this report is the need for more information on the outcome of treatment. Policy makers clearly need more information on patients at the end of their treatment, including information on further treatment and its effectiveness.
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