Addiction Specialist: Dr Katharine May – Psychologist and Addiction Specialist

Dr Katharine May – psychologist and addiction specialist


From http:www.knowdrugs.net Dr May is a psychologist who works in addiction, as an interface for people coming into rehabilitation. She wrote her Masters on substance misuse. It was called ‘The Myth of the Addict’. In this interview she talks about the bio-psycho-social model of drug use, signs to indicate addiction, the formation of drug policy and its effects on scientific research, the process someone going into rehab might go through, and gives a physiological explanation of what happens to your body when you mix cocaine and alcohol. Among other things…skip through the chapters to see some of the other subject areas she covers.

 

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