The life of the heroin user typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes

• Main Author: Darke, Shane (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011
• Series: International research monographs in the addictions; Cambridge medicine
• Subjects: Heroin Dependence > therapy; Substance-Related Disorders > therapy
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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's life...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Addict 'careers': the lifecycle of the opioid user; 2. Parents and childhood; 3. Early teenage years: the onset of substance use; 4. The mid-teens: the commencement of opioid use; 5. The twenties and thirties: the polydrug-using opioid user; 6. The drug treatment cycle: remission and relapse; 7. The older opioid user: the forties and beyond; 8. Death: rates and causes; 9. Conclusions: an inevitable life and death?; Index.