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Romancing Opiates
Theodore Dalrymple
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Description for Romancing Opiates
Paperback. In this detailed examination of drug addiction treatment, Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists, and social workers have created myths about addiction to build lucrative method of expensive quasi-treatment. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JMP; MMZR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths (drugs are creative and intense) in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatment. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He ... Read more
Theodore Dalrymple believes that almost everything people know about opiate addiction is wrong. Most flawed of all is the notion that addicts are in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them uncritically accepting addicts' descriptions of addiction, have employed literary myths (drugs are creative and intense) in constructing an equal and opposite myth of quasi-treatment. Using evidence from literature and pharmacology and drawing on examples from his own clinical experience, Dalrymple shows that addiction is not a disease, but a response to personal and existential problems. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594032257
SKU
V9781594032257
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