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  • A Brighter Side: Protective and Risk Factors in the Rehabilitation of Chronic Drug Abusers in Hong Kong
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  • Yuet Wah Cheung
  • 2009
  • Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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Despite the increase of research investigating various aspects of the drug problem in Hong Kong in the past decade, little was known about the pathway to continuous drug use or recovery of chronic drug abusers. This book reports upon a pioneer longitudinal study of chronic drug abusers in Hong Kong that used an analytical framework consisting of sociological, psychological and treatment variables to explore the protective and risk factors affecting the relapse or abstinence of chronic drug abusers. The findings of the study have significant implications for theories of drug use and rehabilitation, especially highlighting the roles of social capital, self-efficacy, short-term abstinence and harm reduction in the chronic drug abuser’s road to recovery.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. Rance P. L. Lee
  3. pp. vii-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xv-xviii
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  1. Figures and Tables
  2. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. p. xxiii
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  1. 1. Drug Rehabilitation and Drug Policy
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. 2. A Longitudinal Study of Chronic Drug Abusers in Hong Kong
  2. pp. 23-46
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  1. 3. Addiction History and Treatment Pattern of Chronic Drug Abusers in Hong Kong
  2. pp. 47-58
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  1. 4. Drug Use and Abstinence of Chronic Drug Abusers in the Intervals
  2. pp. 59-72
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  1. 5. Explaining Abstinence in the Intervals
  2. pp. 73-102
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  1. 6. Interpreting Protective and Risk Factors in the Maintenance of Abstinence
  2. pp. 103-124
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  1. 7. A Brighter Side: Summary of Findings and Service Implications
  2. pp. 125-136
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  1. Appendix 1. Recruitment and Retention of Subjects
  2. pp. 137-140
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  1. Appendix 2. Testing the Final Model Across Subgroups of Gender, Years of Addiction, and Number of Past Treatments
  2. pp. 141-144
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  1. Appendix 3. Focus Groups and Ethnographic Cases
  2. pp. 145-158
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  1. Appendix 4. Limitations of the Longitudinal Study of Chronic Drug Abusers in Hong Kong
  2. pp. 159-162
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 163-166
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  1. References
  2. pp. 167-174
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 175-178
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