Addiction is increasing all around the world, and the conventional remedies don't work. The Globalization of Addiction argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that past treatments have focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. This book presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. INDICE: Part I - Roots of Addiction in Free-market Society; 1: Vancouver as prototype; 2: Addiction1, Addiction2, Addiction3, Addiction4; 3: The dislocation theory of addiction; 4: Psychosocial integration is a necessity; 5: Free-market society undermines psychosocial integration; 6: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (1) - historical evidence; 7: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (2) - quantitative research, clinical reports and 'spam'; 8: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (3) - the myth of the demon drugs; Part II - The Interaction of Addiction and Society; 9: Addiction andsociety; 10: The role of addiction in the civilised madness of the 21st century; 11: Getting by; 12: Spiritual treatment for addiction: the 'fifth pillar';13: Socrates' 'Master passions' and Dikaiosune; 14: From blindness and paralysis to action; 15: Social actions to control addiction: question period
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958871-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés