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Author Fernandez, Humberto, 1950-

Title Heroin : its history, pharmacology, and treatment / Humberto Fernandez and Therissa A. Libby.

Imprint Center City, Minn. : Hazelden, ©2011.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.293 FER    Check Shelf
Edition 2nd ed., rev. and updated.
Description xi, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series The library of addictive drugs
Library of addictive drugs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The drug -- The history of heroin: the discovery of opium and the China trade -- The history of heroin: heroin in America and the world trade -- The pharmacology and physiology of heroin use -- The addict -- The psychology and culture of the heroin addict -- Case history: heroin addiction -- Treatment -- Treatment for heroin addiction : the behavioral model -- The politics of methadone maintenance -- Case histories: methadone maintenance -- Pharmacological approaches to heroin addiction treatment -- Society -- Heroin, the aids epidemic, and hepatitis B and C -- America's war on drugs -- Heroin and the criminal justice system in America -- Heroin, popular culture, and the media -- Heroin addicts : beyond redemption?
Summary This volume provides an examination of the drug heroin from the discovery of opium by the Sumerians nearly 7,000 years ago to the use, abuse, treatment, and meaning of heroin in our day. A reference on the drug's history, pharmacology, psychology, and sociology, this work also offers an account of heroin's power and persistent allure, its medicinal benefits and destructive nature. It contains personal stories and vignettes, and puts a human face on the long and complex story behind this notorious drug. First published in 1998, this book provided a definitive account of the drug's many myths and truths. This second edition has been revised to reflect changes in heroin use and new research findings about the drug's neurological effects.
Subject Heroin -- History.
Heroin abuse.
Heroin abuse -- Treatment.
Methadone maintenance.
Heroin Dependence (DNLM)D006556
Heroin Dependence -- therapy (DNLM)D006556Q000628
Heroin -- history (DNLM)D003932Q000266
Drug and Narcotic Control (DNLM)D004335
Heroin. (OCoLC)fst00955599
Heroin abuse. (OCoLC)fst01430477
Heroin abuse -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst01430484
Methadone maintenance. (OCoLC)fst01018549
Heroin (DE-588)4159621-3
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Libby, Therissa A., 1960-
ISBN 9781592858309 (pbk.)
1592858309 (pbk.)
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