Immigration, Acculturation, and Drug Use
Israel is a nation of immigrants from many countries. From 1989 to 1998, the Israeli population of 4.5 million rose about 20 % primarily from the nearly one million Soviet immigrants, mostly from Russia and the Ukraine, who entered the country. A large pr
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Richard Isralowitz Patricia A. Findley Editors
Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
Series Editor Masood Zangeneh
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13393
Richard Isralowitz • Patricia A. Findley Editors
Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Middle East
Editors Richard Isralowitz Spitzer Department of Social Work Ben Gurion University Beer Sheva, Israel
Patricia A. Findley School of Social Work Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction ISBN 978-3-319-41554-3 ISBN 978-3-319-41556-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41556-7
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Preface
Mental health and drug use are deeply embedded characteristics of most societies and nations including those throughout the Middle East. It shows itself in the form of illness, death, crime, war, human suffering, and other conditions that affect quality of life. There is no shortage of people affected from these conditions, nor is there any shortage of possible prevention and treatment interventions with ameliorative value. However, the uncommon is a multinational, multiethnic group of people coming together, with trust and respect as well as resilience and resolve, to share a common mission of helping people in need. The chapters written for this book are no heap of parts. Rather, they are a set of experiences and knowledge accumulated from extraordinary experiences worthy of study, modification and replication....over time and across locations. This book was prepared to share the hope for peace and well-be
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