A reference guide that answers the questions people have about addiction and addictive behaviors of all kinds, including drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, Internet usage, and more.
Howard Padwa, PhD, works as a researcher in Los Angeles. Jacob Cunningham, MA, teaches history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA.
This intelligently written, accesible volume focuses on addiction
and its history.
*School Library Journal*
Appropriate for libraries where addictions are studied and where
there is an emphasis on the use of primary sources.
*Booklist*
Aimed at a general audience, this handy yet comprehensive reference
by Padwa (independent scholar) and Cunningham (history, Hebrew
Union College) is divided into three major sections….In this new
work the lucid language makes even legal entries easy to
comprehend, thereby assisting those addicts who are looking to help
themselves as well as those supporters helping friends or relatives
overcome their addiction problems. Overall, this book achieves what
it sets out to, serving as a handy, go-to reference work. Summing
Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general
readers.
*Choice*
… recommended for purchase by public and academic libraries.
*Catholic Library World*
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