Drug Addiction in Australia.
Material type: TextPublication details: Sydney : Michelle Anderson Publishing, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780855724467
- 0855724463
- 9780855724450
- 0855724455
- Drug addiction -- Australia
- Drug addicts -- Australia
- Drug abuse -- Australia
- Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation
- Drug Users -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Drug and Narcotic Control -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Australia
- Toxicomanie -- Australie
- Toxicomanes -- Australie
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Drug abuse
- Drug addiction
- Drug addicts
- Australia
- 362.29
- RC564 .V384 2015
- 2015 C-614
- WM 270
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This book is a comprehensive and clinically objective review of drug abuse and addiction in Australia. It is written to appeal to families, educators, policy makers, students, healthcare professionals and drug users. It is based on the knowledge and experience of Dr John Sherman and his clinic in Footscray, a western suburb of Melbourne. The book comprises a series of stories told through the eyes of drug addicts, their families, healthcare professionals, policy makers and legislators, law enforcement officials and researchers. It traces the history of drugs of dependence, community and govern.
PREFACE -- 1. At the Clinic -- 2. Heroin: All That is Evil? -- 3. Everybody's Problem -- 4. How Do I Protect My Kids? -- 5. The New Patient -- 6. A Daily Commitment or Payday and Saturday? -- 7. It's Not Just the Drugs -- 8. Ripples and Muddy Ponds -- 9. On the Front Line -- 10. Lives Lost, Lives at Risk -- 11. Methadone and Other Treatments -- 12. So You Want to Kick the Habit? -- 13. Towards a Better Place -- 14. Speaking from Experience -- 15. Drugs, Crime and the Law -- 16. The Legacy of Vietnam -- 17. The Unanswered Questions -- POSTSCRIPT: The Trainto Footscray -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FURTHER READING -- Endnotes.
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