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When kids turn to substance abuse, parents also become victims as they watch their children transform into irrational and antisocial individuals. This harrowing scenario finds parents buckling beneath the stress -- often with catastrophic consequences: divorce, career upsets, breakdowns, and worse. This book focuses on the plight of the confused, distressed parent and not the erring child. It sets aside any preconceived ideas that parents are to blame...

"With her Master of Social Work diploma still fresh in her hands, Rachel Greene Baldino embarked on a year-long journey as a new professional in a methadone clinic. She was ecstatic that she would be starting her career in a full-fledged counselor's position. But was she prepared for what lay ahead? Her personal account of the year that followed will give you an eye-opening glimpse into a place called "methadonia." Welcome to Methadonia: a Social...

Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber captures the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Caught up in a world of conspiracy theories and post-Communist disillusionment, speed freak Andrzej Robakoski finds himself falling apart after his girlfriend Magda dumps him.

"This text, aimed at generalist students, provides current coverage and practical clinical examples to reflect the rapid changes in the field of addiction treatment. Using a reader-friendly style, the authors cover various treatment models and present objective discussions of controversies in the field. Topics span the entire field (including pharmacology, conceptualizations of AOD, assessment and diagnosis, models of prevention and treatment, and...

For twelve years Dr. Gabor Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. In this video seminar, Dr. Maté examines the source of addictions in the early childhood environment and the neurobiology of the brain's reward pathways, discusses the chemistry...

Explores "the emotional confusion and trauma affecting children of substance abusers, showing how many young people are able to break the cycle of addiction and create a healthy pattern for their own lives" (container). Features interviews with three teenagers whose parents are either alcoholics or have been addicted to drugs.

Follows the lives of five narcotics addicts for two years, as they move through various drug rehabilitation programs in San Francisco. Lonny Shavelson takes an unprecedented journey into the lives of addicts struggling to get clean. Shavelson, a noted physician, photographer, and journalist, trailed five addicts for two years through different California drug rehabilitation programs, some voluntary and others court-mandated. He follows addicts behind...