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Explore the possibilities for successfully treating incarcerated or community-based substance abusers

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients: Practical Implications for Institutional and Community Settings provides key research findings and policy implications for treating alcohol- and drug-addicted correctional clients. This book addresses a range of critical issues associated with delivering treatment in institutional and community settings. The critical thinking questions, tables, extensive bibliographies, and name and subject index will help academics and practitioners in criminal justice, sociology, counseling/psychology, and public policy.

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients shares the practical knowledge of researchers and practitioners in the fields of drug and alcohol addictions, substance abuse counseling, and criminal justice. The first section provides a review of the theoretical explanations for substance abuse, “best practice” treatment programs for substance abusers, and the use of coerced/mandated treatment. The second section addresses the substance-addicted offender in the institutional setting, the third includes works that describe community-based treatment programs and the problems associated with them, and the fourth looks at special treatment populations, including juveniles and adolescent females.

In Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients, you will find:

• reviews of various types of treatment programs being used to treat substance-addicted individuals
• a study of the predictors of success and/or failure in corrections-based substance abuse programming—how to identify and use the predictors to prevent relapse
• arguments for and against coerced treatment in the correctional environment, and the concept of “motivation”
• a thorough investigation of the therapeutic community (TC) program for institutional-based substance abusers
• descriptions of treatment programming designed specifically for substance abusing community corrections clients—drug courts and Pennsylvania’s Restrictive Intermediate Punishment treatment program

Substance Abuse Treatment with Correctional Clients guides you through the major policy issues faced by those who provide substance abuse treatment under what can only be described as coercive circumstances. In this important resource, you will discover major treatment modules as well as advice for working with adult, juvenile, and male or female offenders. This book provides you with the techniques that treatment communities need for helping offenders stay clean after they re-enter the community environment.

Substance Abuse Treatment With Correctional Clients: Practical Implications For Institutional And Community Settings

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If you think you might have a problem with alcohol… if you suspect someone you know might have alcoholism… or you know there is a problem and you just want all the facts on this disease and the various ways to treat it… then this guide was written just for you!

Alcoholism is not that complicated a thing. It’s pretty easy to determine if you or someone you know is suffering from alcoholism (there’s a simple questionnaire professional treatment centers use)… and there are proven methods for beating the disease. You just have to know a little bit about human nature… what causes addictions… and the lifestyle factors that encourage alcoholism. Then you can zero in on what it is that’s causing the alcoholism-and either fix the problem or change the person’s lifestyle to reduce the effect it has on the disease. There’s also plenty of support for people that really want to get better.

Here’s just some of what’s inside…

? Alcoholism 101: what alcoholism… alcohol dependence… and alcohol abuse really are (and how to tell if you or someone you know is suffering from any of them) (pages 4-7)

? Why a traditional “intervention” is probably not the best way to try to help someone with an alcohol problem (pages 9-10)

? Is there really an “alcoholic gene”? The answer may surprise you… (pages 11-12)

? 10 ways alcoholism is dangerous and breaks down the human body. (pages 17-26)

? How excessive drinking can increase your risk of getting cancer (pages 30-32)

? What every parent should know about the dangerous effects of binge drinking on adolescents and teens (plus, how to determine if your kids are drinking and how to make them stop) (pages 37-43)

? Why women “get drunk” easier and the specific health risks for females from drinking that ALL females should know (pages 45-50)

? The absolute best treatment options for alcoholism (pages 51-53)

? Everything you need to know about treating alcoholism with prescription drugs like Ondansetron and Naltrexone (pages 56-57)

? Which alternative therapies have been proven to work best for treating alcoholism (pages 58-60)

? Simple, quick and all-natural herbal remedies you can make at home to help treat alcoholism (including which natural juices help cure hangovers!) (pages 62-64)

? Everything you need to know about Alcoholics Anonymous, including the 12 steps to recovery (pages 71-72)

? Plus much, MUCH MORE!

This just scratches the surface of what’s in the book. You’ll discover everything you need to know about alcoholism.

A Practical Guide to Alcoholism: How To Identify Alcoholism and The Most Effective Ways To Treat It

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Many advances have been made since the publication of Drug Testing in Hair. The mid-1990s witnessed the progress in cannabis detection while the late 1990s focused on benzodiazepines detection and the applications in doping control. In more recent years, toxicologists centered on the detection in hair of a single exposure and the related applications in drug-facilitated crimes. Presenting these topics as well as the latest findings from the international community, Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair reviews all new developments, the validation of analytical procedures, and the interpretation of data.

Written by well-known, international authors, this comprehensive reference provides practical coverage of the best drug testing techniques and examines the drugs themselves. Some of the applications discussed include doping, drug-facilitated crime investigating, workplace testing, and the granting of drivers’ licenses. The authors describe specific drugs, such as opiates, cocaine, and cannabis, and discuss the different testing methods for them. The book also covers postmortem toxicology, pitfalls created by passive exposure, and testing for metals, including inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS), hair multielementary analysis, and the new speciation analysis.

A complete, up-to-date resource that explains numerous drug testing techniques, Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair provides useful information for toxicologists, forensic scientists, sports medicine specialists, and pathologists.

Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair