Treating Substance Abusers in Correctional Contexts
Subtitle: New Understandings, New Modalities
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780789022776
Subjects: Coping with drug & alcohol abuse; Drug addiction & substance abuse; Self-Help & Practical Interests; Sociology; Prisoners; Treatment; Self-Help; Substance use; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Penology; Prevention; Criminals; Rehabilitation; Substance abuse
First sentence: ABSTRACT Although its remote origins can be traced to the end of prohibition with the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, the nation's "war on drugs" gathered massive strength in the early days of the Reagan administration.