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We see it in films like Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting, read about it in the obituaries of stars like Kurt Cobain, hear about its resurgence in the latest news. We know all about heroin--and yet, beyond the myth of its powers and dangers, how much do we really know about this evermore pervasive drug?

This book provides a much needed, up-to-the-minute, comprehensive, no-nonsense examination of the drug from the discovery of opium by the Sumerians nearly 7,000 years ago to the use, abuse, treatment, and meaning of heroin in our day. The definitive reference on the drug's history, pharmacology, psychology, and sociology, this groundbreaking work also offers a spellbinding account of heroin's power and persistent allure, its medicinal benefits and destructive nature. Animated with vivid personal stories and vignettes, Heroin puts a human face on the long and complex story behind this notorious drug.

"If ever a comprehensive book on heroin were needed it is now, and Humberto Fernandez has filled that need by providing a fully developed history, psychology, physiology, and pharmacology of heroin addiction.
David E. Smith, M.D., Founder, President, and Medical Director, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc., and Richard B. Seymour, M.A., Managing Editor, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

"Heroin is recommended reading for both the general public and addiction treatment professionals. It provides a wealth of information of great value in understanding heroin addiction and treatment."
Mark Parrino, M.P.A., President, American Methadone Treatment Association

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"Surviving Heroin" is designed to be of use to addiction and women's studies scholars and to drug treatment practitioners, social workers and other advocates for women's health. This ethnographic account of the experiences of 37 women who use methadone - heroin survivors whose lives continue to be controlled by methadone and by the clinics that dispense it - concentrates on women in Florida who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. The authors explore the intersection of drug use and race, class and gender oppression. Their analysis suggests new ways to understand how women on heroin and methadone struggle to regain a sense of legitimacy and control in their lives. While methadone clinics offer a legal alternative to drugs, the authors show that the clinics also expect the medicated women to conform to traditional images of femininity. Nonetheless, they argue, the women still find ways to be creative and to challenge the systems that oppress them. The book includes the stories of white, privileged women as well as the more stereotypical poor women of colour such as Millie, a Puerto Rican woman who writes about her life in the first person. The authors frame the women's voices within the social context of the 1960s, the "era of domestic containment" as well as the civil rights, women's, hippie and antiwar movements..
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Here is a timely volume that reviews the current state of knowledge of cocaine use. Some of the country?s leading authorities on cocaine use and abuse examine the pharmacology and neurochemistry of central stimulant abuse with a focus on the specific effects of cocaine. They also address recent experiences concerning the epidemiology of cocaine use from several different databases. This highly useful and informative book also explains the effectiveness of the existing diagnostic and treatment approaches..
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Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has been the primary form of treatment for opiate dependence in the U.S. for over 40 years. It involves providing drug abusers with a less addictive opiate (methadone) in a clinical setting, and then gradually tapering the methadone dosage. In the United States alone, there are more than 1,200 MMT programs, yet, to date, there has been no comprehensive, user-friendly professional reference book on these programs.

This text addresses this issue, and offers insights into the effectiveness of methadone, and the characteristics of successful methadone treatment programs (budgets, services, staff, etc.), as well as regulation and accreditation issues. The information presented is based on a study of nearly 150 MMT programs in 15 states.

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Methadone heals, but methadone kills. Methadone is a life-saving treatment, but methadone is also a life-threatening poison. The challenge is how to confer the benefit without incurring the harm. And that is what this book is all about. Methadone is by far the most widely prescribed drug in the treatment of heroin addiction, and yet, all too often, we are clumsy in our use of this powerful drug. So how much of the observed benefit is to do with methadone itself? Does dose matter? How important is the psychosocial component of care? How can problems of poor compliance be addressed? Is supervised consumption feasible, and, if so, is it justifiable and beneficial? And what is injectable methadone all about? When is it ever prescribed, and for whom, and how? And what about the dangers? Methadone itself can be the actual drug of overdose. How successful have efforts been made to re-structure methadone treatment to prevent overdose deaths? and how can the problems of diversion to the illicit market be kept to a minimum? This multi-authored book, comprising chapters from the best of clinicians, researchers and policymakers, is the essential guide to increasing the relevance and effectiveness of methadone treatment. Like it or loathe it, Methadone Matters..
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In Inside the Methadone Clinic Industry, former methadone counselor Lisa Berry takes the reader into a never before published insider's view of the profiteering and politics rampant in the methadone clinic industry.

She exposes some critical issues within the system:

. Under qualified counselors

. Ineffective and valueless counseling

. Overregulation to stop the sale of methadone

. Bureaucracy for profit

. Keeping patients hooked on methadone for profit

. How profits are made from addiction

Berry describes in detail how patients needing methadone medication have lost their voices, and exposes the façade that has been presented to an unknowing and unsuspecting public. She suggests an alternative, ethical mode of providing this same medication to opiate dependent patients that incorporates channels already available in every community..
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Methadone Clinic is the story of Billy and Pamm, how they get involved, and how Pamm turns Billy on to this job as a substance abuse counselor at the methadone clinic she attends Set in New York's East Village, it's an in-your-face slice of contemporary inner-city life. A must-read for anyone interested in the issue of substance abuse and recovery, Methadone Clinic hits a raw nerve. Written by a former counselor, the reader gets a behind the scenes look into heroin addiction and the methadone industry it has spawned. It is a gritty, true-to-life novel, written by one who understands the plight of the patients and the workers who serve them. As such, it is also a work of considerable social import..
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