Drug Addiction and Casework Treatment Plan: A Study of the Programs for the Rehabilitation of the Drug Addict by the Hudson Guild Counseling Service, New York City, 1959-1961
Abstract
Background of the Study. Drug addiction has been in existence as far back as we have recorded data. Even without the definite references to addiction in early writings, it could have been inferred from one constant aspect of addiction. The addictive qualities of the drugs and their individual characteristics have not changed. There have been new drugs and their synthetic equivalents but this change applies only to the number and to the variety of the drugs. "Regardless of time and place, pharmacological manifestations of the use of narcotics and the predictability of their effects have not changed." Opium was addictive four thousand years ago and it is still addictive today.
Subject Area
Psychology|Clinical psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Atkinson, Joseph Patrick, "Drug Addiction and Casework Treatment Plan: A Study of the Programs for the Rehabilitation of the Drug Addict by the Hudson Guild Counseling Service, New York City, 1959-1961" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097117.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097117
