New PDF release: Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice

By Bankole A. Johnson

ISBN-10: 1441903372

ISBN-13: 9781441903372

ISBN-10: 1461439892

ISBN-13: 9781461439899

The spectrum of habit problems provides practitioners with a number of challenges—among them the widening hole among a starting to be proof base and the interpretation of this data into therapy results. dependancy drugs addresses this disconnect, truly explaining the position of mind functionality in drug taking and different habit-forming behaviors, and utilizing this biobehavioral framework to the supply of evidence-based remedy. Its state of the art assurance offers clinically suitable information on not just conventional assets of dependancy comparable to cocaine, opiates, and alcohol, but additionally extra lately well-known elements of abuse (e.g., steroids, inhalants) in addition to behavioral addictions (e.g., binge consuming, compulsive playing, hoarding). present behavioral and scientific remedies are mentioned extensive, and the book’s shut realization to social context provides readers an extra lens for personalizing remedy.

An overseas panel of professional individuals deals the main up to date details on:

Diagnosis and classification
Neurobiological and molecular theories of addiction
Behavioral innovations of addiction
Clinical facets of dependancy to quite a lot of components, together with opiates, stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine
Science-based treatment plans: pharmacotherapy, pharmacogenetics, strength vaccines, short and compliance-enhancing interventions, cognitive behavioral remedy, behavioral administration, and different psychosocial interventions
Behavioral addictions—including compulsive consuming, net messaging, and hypersexuality—and their treatment
Addiction in particular populations, together with youth, the aged, pregnant girls, and healthiness care professionals
Legal, incapacity, and rehabilitation issues

At as soon as accomplished and integrative, habit medication is an important textual content and a practice-expanding instrument for psychiatrists, wellbeing and fitness psychologists, pharmacologists, social employees, drug counselors, trainees, and normal physicians/family practitioners.

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