The life of the heroin user : typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes / Shane Darke.
"Heroin is a worldwide scourge and a seemingly intractable one. The Life of the Heroin User: Typical Beginnings, Trajectories and Outcomes is the first book to apply a biographical approach to the lifecycle of the heroin user from birth until death. Chapters address each stage of the user'...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | International research monographs in the addictions.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Heroin and addict 'careers'
- Chapter 2. Parents and childhood
- Chapter 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use
- Chapter 4. The mid to late teens: commencing heroin use
- Chapter 5. The 20s and 30s: the heroin and polydrug use
- Chapter 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse
- Chapter 7. The older heroin user: the 40s and beyond
- Chapter 8. Death: rates and causes
- Chapter 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?