The Globalization of Addiction

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* 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 and society


* 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 

Autoreninfo

Bruce Alexander is a psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, where he has worked since 1970. His primary research interest has been the psychology of addiction. He is best known in the UK for the "Rat Park" experiments, which helped to demonstrate the falsity of the outworn belief that simple exposure to narcotic drugs can cause addiction. In Canada, he has been well known as a critic of the War on Drugs for decades. His most recent work has been on the causes of the current worldwide proliferation of addiction, not only to drugs, but to a great variety of other habits and pursuits. Exploring this topic has required that he venture far beyond his training in psychology, particularly into the fields of history and anthropology.