Addiction & opiates

A study about addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. It proposes and elaborates a general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate an addict's characteristic craving for drugs.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindesmith, Alfred Ray , 1905-1991 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Aldine Transaction , c2008
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300 |a vii, 295 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 23 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: Chicago : Aldine, 1968 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-287) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Method and problem -- 2. The effects of opiates -- 3. Habituation and addiction -- 4. The nature of addiction -- 5. Processes in addiction -- 6. Cure and relapse -- 7. A critique of current views of addiction -- 8. Conclusions, implications, problems -- 9. The problem in the United States during the nineteenth century -- 10. Federal Anti-Narcoticss legislation -- 11. The effects of World War II -- 12. Needed reforms -- 13. Postscript-1968 
520 |a A study about addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. It proposes and elaborates a general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate an addict's characteristic craving for drugs. 
650 0 |a Drug addiction 
650 0 |a Narcotics 
650 0 |a Opium abuse 
650 1 2 |a Opium 
650 2 2 |a Substance-Related Disorders 
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