The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy

by Todd Meyers

Book Overview

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and renewed fears about drug diversion and abuse. In The Clinic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295992417
• ISBN13: 9780295992419
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher