| Description |
1 online resource (114 pages) |
| Contents |
The problem -- Prevalence of legal drug abuse -- Persons most at risk -- Pills, people, and process -- Legal drugs of abuse -- Dynamics of addiction and dependency -- Sociological roots of addiction -- The addictive society -- Women and the medical profession -- Women and the pharmaceutical industry -- Growing up and growing old -- Health care in the addictive society -- Family in the addictive society -- Spiritual roots of addiction -- Existential anxiety -- Religion and spirituality -- Religion and recovery from addiction -- Women and religion -- Religious systems as part of the addictive society -- Pastoral response -- Caring for the individual -- A recovery program -- Prevention -- Systemic reform -- Religious resources -- Helping individuals |
| Summary |
In Hidden Addictions: A Pastoral Response to the Abuse of Legal Drugs, you'll find that beneath the gruesome, more public face of illegal drug abuse lies another less hideous, but just as destructive, layer of addiction--the addiction to prescribed drugs. In this revealing study, you'll learn how you can confront the hidden malady of legal drug dependency in individuals and ultimately break its chokehold on a world already ravaged by complacency and social-systemic dysfunction |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church work with medication abusers -- United States
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Medication abuse -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Church work with medication abusers.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317721192 |
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1317721195 |
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