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.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Aldine Transaction ,
c2008
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Table of Contents:
- 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