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Ronel, Natti – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1998
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is investigated as a subculture of recovery bridging the drug subculture and the prevailing culture. A phenomenological study of NA in Israel is reported. Innovation, cultural conflict, the value of recovery and its norms, supporting social mechanisms, limitations of the program, and intercultural attributes are…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation
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Israelstam, Stephen; Lambert, Sylvia – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1989
Asserts that secluded nature of homosexual bar and its importance as social center is one example of how lifestyle may contribute to alcohol and drug problems of homosexuals. Describes what aspects of lifestyle and social control must be taken into account when intervening into such problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehabilitation, Foreign Countries
Wilson, G. C. – 1984
Alcoholism, and particularly alcoholism in the family, is an unsolved medical and social problem. Addictive drinking results in several social and psychological problems, most of which are caused by a change in brain function. Excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages operates as a stressor and produces alkaloids at the base of the brain that are…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attitude Change, Clinical Diagnosis, Community Problems