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020 _a9781139540971 (ebook)
020 _z9781107034761 (hardback)
020 _z9781107610095 (paperback)
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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
050 0 0 _aRC533
_b.O74 2013
082 0 0 _a616.85/84
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100 1 _aOrford, Jim,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPower, powerlessness and addiction /
_cJim Orford.
246 3 _aPower, Powerlessness & Addiction
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505 0 _aPowerful connections: three examples of addiction -- How addiction erodes free agency -- Addiction subordinates the interests of family members and friends -- Inequality in the power to resist addiction -- Power and powerlessness in the addiction supply industries -- Reasserting control and power in the process of change and treatment -- Facing up to the power of addiction and those who benefit from it.
520 _aAddiction exercises enormous power over all those who are touched by it. This book argues that power and powerlessness have been neglected in addiction studies and that they are a unifying theme that brings together different areas of research from the field including the disempowering nature of addiction; effects on family, community and the workplace; epidemiological and ethnographic work; studies of the legal and illegal supply; and theories of treatment and change. Examples of alcohol, drug and gambling addiction are used to discuss the evidence that addiction is most disempowering where social resources to resist it are weakest; the ways in which the dominant discourses about addictive behaviour encourage the attributing of responsibility for addiction to individuals and divert attention from the powerful who benefit from addiction; and the ways in which the voices of those whose interests are least well-served by addiction are silenced.
650 0 _aCompulsive behavior.
650 0 _aControl (Psychology)
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107034761
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540971
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