Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
by David Poswillo
Drugs & Alcohol in the Workplace
by Drusilla Campbell and Marilyn Scott Scott
This handbook has been designed as a tool by which managers can detect, document, advise, treat, and rehabilitate drug and alcohol dependent employees. It discusses in detail which drugs are available and the symptoms revealed by their abuse. It then provides a step-by-step guide to the period of denial and suggests ways to intervene. Included in the text are suggested methods of treatment and a discussion of the various ethical, legal and medical issues surrounding chemical addiction.
Guardianship and Intervention Orders- Making an Application
The Scale and Impact of Illegal Drug Use by Workers (Research Report S., RR 193)
Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, including new methods of helping heavy drinkers and social policies for preventing heavy drinking and the harms associated with it.
Every Life Has Value Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Awareness
by MD Eyasin Ali
The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one's skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a per...
Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending and responding to ethical and regulatory concerns.
A sane, balanced and impartial source of advice and information on what is known about various drugs, their history and how they are used. The legal and medical status of each drug is covered and facts are sifted from hysteria. Drugs covered include alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and steroids.
HIV/AIDS
