Addiction medicine:science and practice

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Johnson Bankole A.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York, NY London
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0338-9
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxix, 1633 p.): ill. (some col.)
ISBN: 9781441903389 (electronic bk.)
1441903380 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: R969
CLC: R969.3
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emerging health perspectives -- The epidemiology of alcohol and drug disorders -- United States federal drug policy -- Historical perspectives of addiciton -- Diagnosis and classification of substance use disorders -- Drug reinforcement in animals -- Role of the human laboratory in the development of medications for alcohol and drug dependence -- Condition of addiction -- Mouse models: knockouts/knockins -- Vulnerability to substance abuse -- The pharmacogenomics of addiction -- Metabolomics in drug response and addiction -- Neurobiological basis of drug reward and reinforcement -- Neurobehavioral toxicology of substances of abuse -- Animal models of drug dependence: motivational perspective -- Novel methodologies: proteomic approaches in substance abuse research -- Alcohol: clinical aspects -- Cocaine -- Nicotine -- Marijuana: an overview of the empirical literature -- Opiates and prescription drugs -- Clinical aspects of methamphetamine -- Sedative-hypnotics and anxiolytics -- Clinical aspects of inhalant addiction -- Anabolic-androgenic steroids -- Caffeine -- Serotonergic hallucinogens -- Ketamine and phencyclidine -- The biology and treatment of pathological gambling -- An addiction model of binge eating disorder -- Compulsive buying -- Sexual behavior as an addictive or compulsive phenomenon -- Instant messaging addiction among teenagers: abstracting from the Chinese experience. Hoarding as a behavioral addiction -- Motivational interviewing: emerging theory, research, and practice -- Cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction -- Community reinforcement approach and contingency management therapies -- Relapse prevention and recycling in addiction -- Brief interventions for the treatment of alcohol or other drug addiction -- Self-help approaches for addictions -- Community clinics -- Unhealthy alcohol and drug use in primary care -- Criminal justice system and addiction treatment -- Adolescent neurocognitive development and school-based drug abuse prevention and treatment -- The therapeutic community for drug abuse treatment: a journey yet unfolding in the recovery movement -- Substance use-focused self-help groups: processes and outcomes -- Pharmacotherapy for alcoholism and some related psychiatric and addictive disorders: scientific basis and clinical findings -- Alcohol withdrawl: treatment and application -- Nicotine -- Pharmacotherapy of cocaine addiction -- Opioids: heroin and prescription drugs -- Methamphetamine -- Potential pharmacotherapies for cannabis dependence -- Hallucinogens -- Molecular genetics and the treatment of addiction -- Physical conditions for treatment complications of alcohol and drug use and misuse -- Pain and addiction -- The triple threat: mental illness, substance abuse, and the human immunodeficiency virus -- Substance use stigma as a barrier to treatment and recovery -- Religiousness, spirituality, and addiction: an evidence-based review -- Ear acupuncture in addiction treatment -- In silico models of alcohol kinetics: a deterministic approach -- In silico models of alcohol dependence treatment: stochastic approach -- Dynamic and systems-based modes for evaluating hypotheses related to predicting treatment response -- Enhancing positive outcomes for children of substance-abusing parents. Vulnerability to addictive disorders and substance abuse in adolescence and emerging adulthood -- Alcohol and substance abuse in African Americans -- Gays, lesbians, and Bisexuals -- Substance use disorders in health care professionals -- Identification and treatment of alcohol or drug dependence in the elderly -- Alcohol and drugs of abuse in pregnant women: effects on the fetus and newborn, mode of action, and maternal treatment -- Forensic issues -- Disability and addiction -- The homeless -- To open up new vistas in basic and preclinical addiction research -- opportunities, and successes in the development for the treatment of addiction.
The spectrum of addiction disorders presents practitioners with numerous challenges - among them the widening gap between a growing evidence base and the translation of this knowledge into treatment outcomes. "Addiction Medicine" addresses this disconnect, clearly explaining the role of brain function in drug taking and other habit-forming behaviors, and applying this biobehavioral framework to the delivery of evidence-based treatment. Its state-of-the-art coverage provides clinically relevant details on not only traditional sources of addiction such as cocaine, opiates, and alcohol,