Drugs in Perspective: A Personalized Look at Substance Use and Abuse - Softcover
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Emphasizing the human cost of drug abuse, this text addresses the causes, intervention, prevention, and treatment of drug abuse and addiction. It provides a structured perspective on the use and abuse of drugs by exploring the impact of dysfunctional and/or imbalanced family systems on the individual drug user.
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About the Author
Richard Fields, Ph.D., is owner/director of FACES, Conference and Home Study Programs for Mental Health Clinicians. Dr. Fields brings an expertise to FACES based on over 30 years of work in the alcohol/drug field. He still actively counsels individuals and family members with alcohol/drug problems, training thousands of professionals each year at FACES Conferences (www.facesconferences.com). Formerly the assistant director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Western Regional Training Center, he has conducted training throughout the Western United States. As a consultant, Dr. Fields has worked to develop a number of University and College programs, creating educational classes, workshops and conferences (UCLA Extension, Dept. of Allied Health and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Social Work Extension, Seattle University, Edmonds Community College, University of California, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Cruz and others). Dr. Fields is the author of Drugs in Perspective, 6th edition, McGraw Hill, 2007. This college textbook is standard in most alcohol/drug studies programs.
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- PublisherWilliam C Brown Pub
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0697294250
- ISBN 13 9780697294258
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number3
- Number of pages400
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