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
Subjects:
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