Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This essential collection presents a state-of-the-art framework for how workers in public health and related disciplines should conceptualize health disparities and how they should be addressed worldwide. The contributors, who are leading public health professionals, educators, and practitioners in complimentary fields advance new evidence-based models designed to mobilize and educate the next generation of research and practice...read more

Product Description: A dramatic rise in the number of 'multi-problem' clients have forced community-based addiction treatment centers to answer some tough questions: How do you effectively treat record numbers of diverse and difficult clients? How do you tailor evidence-based interventions to a client's individual background involving possible incarceration, ongoing supervision, a history of trauma and a high risk of relapse? Moreover, how do practitioners work effectively within a society that stigmatizes drug users? Because the largest and fastest growing segment of the community-based addiction treatment population includes those who are mandated, this book addresses the task of 'making mandated addiction treatment work...read more

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