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Building on Success
The Ingle gym produced many boxers admirable in different ways. Brian Anderson’s post-career life was more noteworthy than his boxing career as he...
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Bridging Social Capital: A Clinical Sociology Approach to Substance Use Intervention
This chapter describes the evolution of a clinical intervention developed by applying social capital theory to address a social problem. The idea for...
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Die Droge als Aktant
Der Beitrag diskutiert die Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven einer von der Akteur-Netzwerk- Theorie ausgehenden soziologischen Beschäftigung mit Drogen....
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The relationship between health policy and public health interventions: a case study of the DRIVE project to “end” the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs in Haiphong, Vietnam
We present a case study of the effects of health policies on the implementation and potential outcomes of a public health intervention, using the...
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Alcohol and Drug Use
This chapter explores the interconnectivity of experiences of mental health and alcohol and other drug use. It initially sets out those critical...
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Research about DMT and ayahuasca
The first synthesizing of DMT took place in 1931 by the Canadian chemist Richard Helmuth Fredrick Manske (Manske, 1931, Ott, 1998, McKenna and Riba,...
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Social and Family Context and Its Relevance to Child Maltreatment Through Drugs
Poverty, social chaos, isolation from medical and social care, low parental education and parental psychiatric illness increase the risk of child...
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Alcohol and Drug Use
This chapter explores the interconnectivity of experiences of mental health and alcohol and other drug use. It initially sets out those critical...
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Productive Misunderstandings: the Ambivalent Relationship Between Religious-Based Treatments and the Lay State in Mexico
Given the current political situation in Mexico, this article discusses the relationship between the state and the religious and spiritual models for...
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Consumer Redlining and the Reproduction of Inequality at Dollar General
This paper extends our knowledge of consumer redlining by providing empirical evidence documenting its occurrence at Dollar General stores while also...
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The Neurobiology of Reward: Understanding Circuitry in the Brain that Shapes Our Behavior
Species evolution has been fueled by the development of brain neurocircuitry and physical attributes to compete for food, partners and environmental...
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Social Norms and the Right to Health
International attention on contemporary Chinese issues tends to focus on those that are politics-related, for instance free speech and corruption....
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Lived Religion, Worship and Conversion: Ethnographic Reflections in an Abstinence-based Christian Therapeutic Community
This chapter critically examines the intersection between lived religion, worship, and the ethics of conversion in a faith-based therapeutic...
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Financial Contributions and Considerations
Grandparents, in general, spend a lot of money on their grandchildren. This is particularly true when the grandchildren have disabilities....
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Die diskursanalytische Rekonstruktion der Trauer im Kontext des DSM
Die Einführung der fünften Ausgabe des DSM im Mai 2013 wurde von einer vielfältigen und kontrovers geführten Diskussion zwischen Medizinern,...
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The Application of a Social Justice Theory to the Well-being of Substance-Exposed Infants
In utero exposure to drugs and alcohol threatens the well-being of infants. Federal law has established child well-being as one of the three main...
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The North American Opioid Epidemic
In this chapter I tell a story about the opioid epidemic in North America. The cultural neuromatrix framework implicates a wider set of actors in the...
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Drogenpolitik und ihre (nicht-intendierten) Effekte
Seit 1961 existiert die moderne Drogenprohibition, seit 1971 ein Krieg gegen die Drogen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Entstehung der...
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Changes of the Drug Scene in Hong Kong
This chapter traced the changes in the drug scene of Hong Kong, focusing on how the historical dominance of heroin had lost ground to psychoactive...
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Wasteful Welfare transactions: Why basic income security is fundamental (2005)
As is the case in any other policy area, so too with policies to fight poverty and exclusion: policy makers and administrators need to take decisions...