Narcology: help or utopia? Why does a cat need a cake?
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Narcology: help or utopia? Why does a cat need a cake?
19.99 €
True stories about how deep and persistent are the misconceptions about the nature of addiction in most people, including addicts themselves, their relatives and health workers. How difficult and painful it is to gain this understanding when trying to help addicts. How irreconcilable, ineffective and dramatic is the struggle of values between addicts and healthy people. The book is about how the existing world order is hopeless in terms of hopes for liberating humanity from the shackles of addiction. Who to fight, what to fight, why and how - these are eternal questions; they are akin to existential ones that worry anyone who has encountered the problem of addiction firsthand. Stories from practice, descriptions of the specifics of the work of a drug treatment hospital, vivid memorable situations, reflections on the experience gained and, in essence, a banal, but always non-obvious answer: a mere mortal is given the ability to change only himself and his life.
The book tells about what is hidden behind the walls of the hospital. How is treatment of addicts carried out, what goals do patients pursue when agreeing to hospitalization, what difficulties do medical workers have to face when providing assistance to drug addicts and alcoholics. The author reflects on questions, the answers to which are not at all obvious. Can relatives and friends of patients influence the outcome of treatment? Where are the boundaries of assistance? Whose doom is more dramatic: the addict or his loved one? Are hopes for recovery ephemeral? Where to draw strength to continue living?
The book encourages reflection and search, polemicizes with official approaches, provides the necessary support to suffering relatives and patients in any decisions they make.
The book is addressed to people whose personal and professional destinies are intertwined with the life paths of addicts.
The book tells about what is hidden behind the walls of the hospital. How is treatment of addicts carried out, what goals do patients pursue when agreeing to hospitalization, what difficulties do medical workers have to face when providing assistance to drug addicts and alcoholics. The author reflects on questions, the answers to which are not at all obvious. Can relatives and friends of patients influence the outcome of treatment? Where are the boundaries of assistance? Whose doom is more dramatic: the addict or his loved one? Are hopes for recovery ephemeral? Where to draw strength to continue living?
The book encourages reflection and search, polemicizes with official approaches, provides the necessary support to suffering relatives and patients in any decisions they make.
The book is addressed to people whose personal and professional destinies are intertwined with the life paths of addicts.
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