Public Health Papers - Drug Problems in the Sociocultural Context

Kitap : Public Health Papers - Drug Problems in the Sociocultural Context

Dil : İngilizce

Bölüm : Sosyal Hekimlik

Yayın Yeri : Geneva

ISBN : 92 4 130073 6

Cilt : 73

Yayın Tarihi : 1980

Yayıncı : World Health Organization WHO

Kitap No : 3323

İÇİNDEKİLER


CONTENTS
Foreword........................
Contributors and acknowledgements.............
introduction
chapter 1. world drug problems and who strktegies . . . .
chapter 2.sociocultural patterns of drug use: case studies
Thailand: Traditional patterns of opium use and the emerging drug problems of urbanization . .
Malaysia: The beginnings of an adolescent drug problem......
India: Socioeconomic development and changes in drug use.....
Pakistan: A comparison of rural and urban patterns of opium use . .
Burma: Opium addicts and the new wave of heroin addicts compared .
The Andean region of South America: Indigenous coca chewing in the rural areas and coca paste smoking in the cities..........
Mexico: Young inhalant-abusers
United States of America: Social and geographical organization of drug-using groups......................
Jamaica: Contrasting patterns of cannabis use...........
Egypt: Cannabis, opium and the move to psychotropics ......
Kenya: Drinking patterns in a rapidly changing culture.......
The use of khat: A stimulant with regional distribution.......
chapter 3. commonalities and diversity among drug use patterns in different countries...........
chapter 4. variety in health care approaches: case studies
United Kingdom: Processes of recovery among heroin users.....
Hong Kong: A community-based voluntary programme......
Thailand: Treatment at the Tam Kraborg temple.........
Sri Lanka: Management of opium dependence in a general hospitalEgypt (1): A community-based outpatient clinic..........
Egypt (2): The role of the mosque in treatment...........
United Kingdom: Casualty departments and the handling of multiple-drug problems........................
Japan: Culturally based treatment of alcoholism..........
The role of the general practitioner
Indonesia: Towards a mandatory responsibility.........
Nigeria: Difficulties and prospects...............
Pakistan: A new responsibility.................
United States of America: Methadone-an alien technology?.....
Alcoholics Anonymous: Origins and the international diffusion of a self-help group.........................
chapter 5. countries differ in their treatment of drug problems.......................
chapter 6. strategies for reducing demand for drugs: case studies.....................
Psychotropics as a world problem: Benzodiazepines and prescribing
patterns as a focus of concern.................
Thailand: Primary health care in hill-tribe villages.........
United States of America: Community treatment to reduce demand
for illicit heroin......................
United Kingdom:Problems change with social change-opium use in
nineteenth century England..................
South-East Asia: Blunt approaches and beyond..........
United States of America: Where drug education stands now.....
Multiple strategies for socially used drugs
Canada: Reducing the demand for alcohol...........
United Kingdom: Controlling the smoking epidemic.......
chapter 7. prevention and the balance of strategies . . .
chapter 8. policy design, programme planning and the sociocultural perspective................
chapter 9. the sense of the future Index...............

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A Basis of Policies and Programme Planning