Name: Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (en Inglés)
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Author: Dalrymple, Theodore
ISBN: 9781594032257

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Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Theodore Dalrymple

Editorial

Encounter Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.1 x 15.0 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.27 kg.

ISBN

1594032254

ISBN13

9781594032257

Categorías

Adicciones y su tratamiento

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (en Inglés)"

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 argues that withdrawal from opiates is not the serious medical condition, but a relatively trivial experience and says that criminality causes addiction far more often than addiction causes criminality.