SALVADOR AMIGO

Las drogas se consideran hoy en día un problema de salud pública y se seguridad ciudadana. Partiendo del supuesto de que las drogas son intrínsecamente malignas y perjudiciales, los gobiernos se han propuesto erradicarlas por completo. Pero cada vez más se acumula evidencia que demuestra que es posible controlar el consumo de drogas, que tienen efectos beneficiosos y que pueden ser utilizadas para promover la salud.

La conciencia es uno de los grandes misterios de todos los tiempos. Este libro pretende alcanzar un conocimiento profundo de la conciencia a partir de reflexiones epistemológicas y filosóficas sobre su naturaleza, y de los estudios de psicologia cognitiva

Drugs have been traditionally associated with negative consequences, such as mental illness, addiction, violence, and even death (overdose). But there is ever-increasing scientific evidence that controlled drug use is possible for both legal and illegal drugs. Moreover, drug use is neither intrinsically harmful, nor do the young adults who take them get worse or are worse people than non drug users. For example, young moderate drug users enjoy a better psychological well-being than non drug users, who tend to be more introverted, anxious, hostile, inexpressive, or are not strictly empathic. Furthermore, some surveys conducted with university students have shown that many drug users indicate that they have experienced positive effects on their long-term drug use. If the drug use control level of frequent consumers is higher than assumed, it is easy to deduce that improving the control among those people who take drugs is possible, who perhaps see how this capacity lowers. The Manual of Controlled Drug Use addresses those people who consume drugs and wish to reduce their consumption, gain better control, or cut the risks associated with drug use and drug abuse. It also addresses anyone who wishes to make full use of the positive effects that drugs can offer them, regardless of them being drug users or not. If a psychological procedure existed with which it was possible to experience positive effects of drugs, and which cut or eliminated their negative effects, it would be most useful for those people who take drugs and who do not wish to stop taking them. In fact, this procedure actually exists and it is called the Self-Regulation Therapy. This Manual includes a detailed description of the Self-Regulation Therapy. Finally, this Manual also addresses therapists and researchers who wish to work with exercises and intervention programs on moderate drug use.

Este libro trata, desde diferentes perspectivas, sobre la dictadura de los medios de comunicación de masas y las alternativas a su poder. En el primer capítulo, El fetichismo de la libertad de expresion y comunicacion, se debate la ideologia que ampara a los medios: la libertad de expresion elevada a objeto de culto, a fetiche. En los siguientes dos capitulos, La dictadura incontestable: los juegos de manipulacion, y La dictadura incontestada: Esquizofrenia y mente disociada, se muestra como los medios eluden cualquier posible critica con estrategias de manipulacion y como se sustraen al control de los poderes publicos y la ciudadania, amparados por la atonia social, la indiferencia a sus atropellos y la aceptacion generalizada de su modus operandi. Asi, su poder es incontestable a la vez que incontestado. En el capitulo 4, El poder de los medios y la sociedad sometida, se busca entender las causas sociales, economicas e ideologicas que expliquen el poder de los medios, y el analisis se extiende a la comprension de los fundamentos de la sociedad de la informacion, incorporando al analisis las TIC (Tecnologias de la Informacion y Comunicacion). En el siguiente capitulo, La rebelion contra los medios, se exponen argumentos para concienciar a la opinion publica sobre la necesidad de luchar contra la dictadura de los medios y se proponen directrices para exigir a los poderes publicos las actuaciones necesarias para limitar su poder. En el ultimo capitulo, La transformacion de la sociedad de la informacion, se constata la limitacion de las alternativas a los medios, como el ciberperiodismo y las redes sociales, y se apuesta por un nuevo modelo social, alternativa al neoliberalismo, que recupere el papel regulador del Estado en la economia y en el control de los medios de comunicacion.

Drugs have been traditionally associated with negative consequences, such as mental illness, addiction, violence, and even death (overdose). But there is ever-increasing scientific evidence that controlled drug use is possible for both legal and illegal drugs. Moreover, drug use is neither intrinsically harmful, nor do the young adults who take them get worse or are worse people than non drug users. For example, young moderate drug users enjoy a better psychological well-being than non drug users, who tend to be more introverted, anxious, hostile, inexpressive, or are not strictly empathic. Furthermore, some surveys conducted with university students have shown that many drug users indicate that they have experienced positive effects on their long-term drug use. If the drug use control level of frequent consumers is higher than assumed, it is easy to deduce that improving the control among those people who take drugs is possible, who perhaps see how this capacity lowers. The Manual of Controlled Drug Use addresses those people who consume drugs and wish to reduce their consumption, gain better control, or cut the risks associated with drug use and drug abuse. It also addresses anyone who wishes to make full use of the positive effects that drugs can offer them, regardless of them being drug users or not. If a psychological procedure existed with which it was possible to experience positive effects of drugs, and which cut or eliminated their negative effects, it would be most useful for those people who take drugs and who do not wish to stop taking them. In fact, this procedure actually exists and it is called the Self-Regulation Therapy. This Manual includes a detailed description of the Self-Regulation Therapy. Finally, this Manual also addresses therapists and researchers who wish to work with exercises and intervention programs on moderate drug use.