Title: Drug addiction in youth.
Authors: Harms, Ernest,
Date: 1965
Publisher: Pergamon Press,
Physical description: xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Introduction: Drug addiction in juveniles -- Drug addiction in Greater New York -- The development of narcotics addiction among new born -- Marihuana use by young people -- Inhalation of commercial solvents: a form of deviance among adolescents -- Supporting report No. 1: glue sniffing in Los Angeles -- Supporting report No. 2: "thinner" addiction in Sweden -- "Phychopathology" of "narcotic addiction": a new point of view -- Psychological characteristics of the adolecent addict -- Attitudes toward authority among adolescent drug addicts as a function of ethnicity, sex and lenght of drug use -- The future time perspective of the adolescent narcotic addict -- A comparison of the Roscharch behavior of adolescents addicts who have died of an overdose with addict controls -- Institutional treament of the juvenile narcotics user -- The withdrawal treatment of adolescent drug addicts -- Group therapy with adolescent addicts: use of heterogeneous group approach -- Our way of life: a short history of Narcotics Anonymous, Inc. -- "After care" rehabilitation -- Adolescent addiction and religion -- Description of the addiction research center program of mental health of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico -- Summary and outlook.
Subject headings (LCSH): Narcotic and youth.; Youth--Drug use