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- Discusses how drug abuse can cause or enhance the progress of the disease or disorder
- Shows how, for some diseases, drug abuse can cause or enhance the progress of disease
- Contents cover virtually every topic in the subject area
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Drug Abuse and Addiction – An Overview
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Front Matter
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PART1
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Drugs of Abuse
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Front Matter
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About this book
Drug abuse and addiction are common in clinical practice. Often they interfere with patient treatment or require an alternative approach. Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment is a major contribution to the literature, a gold standard title offering a comprehensive range of topics for those who care for patients with addiction, conduct research in this area, or simply have an interest in the field. Offering state-of-the-art information for all those working with drug abusing or addicted patients, or for those interested in this topic from other research perspectives, the volume is a first of its kind book -- rich, comprehensive, yet focused, addressing the needs of the very active theoretical, basic, and clinical research in the field. Comprised of 46 chapters organized in four sections and developed by the leading international experts, Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment covers virtually every core, as well as contemporary, topic on addiction, from the established theories to the most modern research and development in the field. Enhancing the educational value of the volume, every chapter includes an abstract and two boxes summarizing learning objectives and directions for future research. Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment discusses the topic in a authoritative, systematic manner and is an indispensable reference for all clinicians and researchers interested in this rapidly changing field.
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From the reviews:
“This thorough, comprehensive book reviews our current understanding of addictive disorders, including core biology, clinical presentation, and treatment. It also is designed to examine drug abuse and its relationship to, and effect on, a variety of psychiatric and medical illnesses. It is intended for researchers, addiction specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacologists, social workers, drug counselors, and trainees as well as healthcare workers who deal with patients with addictions in their clinical practices.” (Michael Easton, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2012)
Editors and Affiliations
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Inst. Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Psychopharmacology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Joris C. Verster
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Dept. Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Kathleen Brady
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School of Medicine, Div. Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, New York University, New York, USA
Marc Galanter
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Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, National Addiction Centre, London, United Kingdom
Patricia Conrod
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drug Abuse and Addiction in Medical Illness
Book Subtitle: Causes, Consequences and Treatment
Editors: Joris C. Verster, Kathleen Brady, Marc Galanter, Patricia Conrod
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3375-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3374-3
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8415-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3375-0
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 573
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Pain Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Psychiatry