Amnon Jacob Suissa
University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
Biography
Amnon Jacob Suissa is a professor with the school of social work at Universite du Quebec à Montreal. He teaches courses on addictions as a social problem and the methodology of social intervention. With a constructivist approach to social problems, he is interested in the social determinants of addictions and their impact on intervention processes. He has a background in family therapy and sociology and is the author of several books and a hundred scientific articles on the phenomenon of medicalization of behaviors understood as pathologies or even diseases.
Abstract
Abstract : Addiction and dual diagnosis : toward a psychosocial perspective and the DPA