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Drawing on more than 120 personal interveiws with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Professor of Biobehavioral Sciences Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals" unveiling a problem that affects nearly every family in America.
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Here is an essential volume for educators, social workers, health care professionals, and parents who are frustrated by the consuming power of drugs over the lives of young people and looking for answers to this enormous problem. In this unique and highly practical volume, experts concentrate on the family--the foundation of mental health and social control--as the most positive force in the prevention of adolescent drug use. Despite the “war on drugs,” young people in large numbers continue to use substances. This instructive guide focuses on educating and strengthening families--which makes stronger children who are less likely to use drugs--instead of the traditional efforts based on ...
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From workplace to school, from professional sports to the armed services, the advent of drug-testing procedures has stirred debate and controversy. Although designed to detect and thereby curtail the use of illicit drugs, this well-intentioned procedure involves difficult issues which require informed decision making. In this thought-provoking and practical book, Robert Coombs and Louis Jolyon West introduce readers to the complex world of drug testing. Written in nontechnical language for those concerned with substance abuse issues, the authors explore drug-testing methodology and offer guidelines for selecting the appropriate screening techniques. The questions concerning "voluntary" testi...
Designed to help parents learn how to reach out to their kids in healthy and supportive ways, hopefully deterring them from experimenting with drugs, this book explains how kids get into drugs and which substances (including alcohol) they are most likely to use. Also addressed are the stages of drug abuse and how major drug industries promote and glamorize drug use.
*HA13, Handbook on Drug Abuse Prevention: A Comprehensive Strategy to Prevent the Abuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Robert H. Coombs(UCLA School of Medicine), Douglas M. Ziedonis(Yale University School of Medicine), 37755-6, 608 pp., 7 x 9 1/4, 0-133-77557-7, casebound, 1995, $20.00nk, January*/This hard-hitting handbook addressing substance abuse is comprised of chapters written by a variety of leading experts in the drug prevention/treatment field. This volume specifies proven and effective techniques, critiques ineffective and counterproductive approaches, and proposes options for retaliation against the on-going war.
Inside Doctoring provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective doctor to the incompetent one, Inside Doctoring presents autobiographical accounts and real-life case studies in insightful and fascinating detail.
Robert H. Coombs's Surviving Medical School offers both an orientation to the hectic, anxious realm of medical education and a resource for coping with and succeeding in that environment. Coombs begins with questions regarding expectations and intellectual and emotional capacities. The author then examines matters related to career doubt and alienation often experienced by medical students. Following an orientation to the clinical experience, the book concludes with discussions about physician fallibility, residency, and professional practice. Surviving Medical School is for medical students at all levels and provides excellent preparation for baccalaureate students anticipating medical school. It also serves as a shelf reference for medical school instructors, advisors, and counselors.