Substance Abuse

What is substance abuse and how can substance abuse be treated? Read free book on substance abuse on this site, by Dr Patrick Dixon.  "The Truth about Drugs" published by Hodder 1998 covers all aspects of substance abuse, drug use, and drug dependency. According to UNDP 8% of value of all international trade is illegal drugs - the true cost of substance abuse.

	What is substance abuse?
	What kinds of drugs cause addiction?
	Addiction to heroin, morphine, cocaine, crack
	Breaking substance abuse
	Treatments for substance abuse
	Life after substance abuse
	Residential treatment centres for substance abuse
	Personality types and substance abuse
	Social factors and poverty links to substance abuse
	Alternative treatments for substance abuse
	Why substance abuse causes such a reaction of fear and rejection
	Access to substance abuse treatments
	Legal issues and government policy on substance abuse
	Why substance abuse is growing
	Statistics for substance abuse
	Schools, colleges, students and substance abuse issues
	Education and prevention of substance abuse
	Why substance abuse is a global issue

Substance abuse is a controversial area - the very terms substance abuse and drug addict are sensitive.  Many prefer to talk about drug dependency.  Likewise substance abuse is a phrase that many fear creates stigma and rejection of those that need help.  The trouble is language.  So drug abuse becomes drug use - hard to apart from medical treatments, and so on.

Free book on substance abuse is available here.

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