The globalisation of addiction : a study in poverty of the spirit / Bruce K. Alexander.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (470 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191552083
- 0191552089
- Compulsive behavior
- Substance abuse
- Compulsive behavior -- Social aspects -- Canada
- Substance abuse -- Social aspects -- Canada
- Social psychology
- Social adjustment
- Social ecology
- Spirituality
- Behavior, Addictive -- psychology
- Psychology, Social
- Social Adjustment
- Social Environment
- Spirituality
- Substance-Related Disorders -- psychology
- British Columbia
- Compulsive Behavior
- Behavior, Addictive
- Comportement compulsif
- Polytoxicomanie
- Comportement compulsif -- Aspect social -- Canada
- Polytoxicomanie -- Aspect social -- Canada
- Psychologie sociale
- Adaptation sociale
- Écologie sociale
- Spiritualité
- addiction
- substance abuse
- social psychology
- human ecology
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
- MEDICAL -- Neurology
- Compulsive behavior
- Compulsive behavior -- Social aspects
- Substance abuse
- Substance abuse -- Social aspects
- Canada
- Sucht
- Globalisierung
- Sozialer Wandel
- Spiritualität
- Sinnfindung
- Ersatzbefriedigung
- Sozialpsychologie
- Spiritualitèat
- 616.86 22
- RC533 .A44 2008eb
- 2008 K-202
- WM 176
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-461) and index.
Vancouver as prototype -- Addiction1, addiction2, addiction3, addiction4 -- The dislocation theory of addiction -- Psychosocial integration is a necessity -- Free-market society undermines psychosocial integration -- Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: historical evidence -- Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: quantitative research, clinical reports, and 'spam' -- Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: the myth of the demon drugs -- Addiction and society -- The role of addiction in the civilised madness of the 21st century -- Getting by -- Spiritual treatment for addiction: the 'fifth pillar' -- Socrates' 'master passions' and dikaiosune -- From blindness and paralysis to action -- Social actions to control addiction: question period.
"This book argues that the cause of the failure to control addiction is that the conventional wisdom of the 19th and 20th centuries focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. Although addiction obviously manifests itself in individual cases, its prevalence differs dramatically between societies. This book shows that the social circumstances that spread addiction in a conquered tribe or a failing civilisation are also built into today's globalising free-market society. The book argues that the most effective response to a growing addiction problem is a social and political one, rather than an individual one"--Jacket
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