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E-book
Author Valenta, Tom

Title Drug Addiction in Australia
Published Sydney : Michelle Anderson Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Drug addiction -- Australia
Drug addicts -- Australia
Drug abuse -- Australia
Substance-Related Disorders -- rehabilitation
Drug Users -- legislation & jurisprudence
Drug and Narcotic Control -- legislation & jurisprudence
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug addicts
SUBJECT Australia
Subject Australia
Form Electronic book
Author Sherman, John
ISBN 9780855724467
0855724463
9780855724450
0855724455