TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Bruce K.
TI  - The globalisation of addiction: a study in poverty of the spirit 
SN  - 9780191552083
AV  - RC533 .G563 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Compulsive behavior
KW  - Substance abuse
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Canada
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Social adjustment
KW  - Social ecology
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Behavior, Addictive
KW  - psychology
KW  - Psychology, Social
KW  - Social Adjustment
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Substance-Related Disorders
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Vancouver as prototype --; Addiction1, addiction2, addiction3, addiction4 --; The dislocation theory of addiction --; Psychosocial integration is a necessity --; Free-market society undermines psychosocial integration --; Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: historical evidence --; Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: quantitative research, clinical reports, and 'spam' --; Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation: the myth of the demon drugs --; Addiction and society --; The role of addiction in the civilised madness of the 21st century --; Getting by --; Spiritual treatment for addiction: the 'fifth pillar' --; Socrates' 'master passions' and dikaiosune --; From blindness and paralysis to action --; Social actions to control addiction: question period; 2; b
N2  - "This book argues that the cause of the failure to control addiction is that the conventional wisdom of the 19th and 20th centuries focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. Although addiction obviously manifests itself in individual cases, its prevalence differs dramatically between societies. This book shows that the social circumstances that spread addiction in a conquered tribe or a failing civilisation are also built into today's globalising free-market society. The book argues that the most effective response to a growing addiction problem is a social and political one, rather than an individual one"--Jacket
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