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Treating Opioid Addiction

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  • Written by experts in the field
  • Offers a solid foundation in opioids and their misuse
  • Includes updated review of clinical guidelines and policy

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Psychiatry (CCPSY)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

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About this book

This book addresses opioids and opioid use disorders from epidemiological, clinical, and public health perspectives. It covers detailed information on the nature of opioids, their effects on the human body and brain, prevention, and treatment of opioid addiction.  Unlike other texts, the first section of this volume builds a strong historical, neurobiological, and phenomenological foundation for a deep understanding of the topic and the patient.  The second section addresses the most challenging issues clinicians face, including pharmacological and psychosocial treatments, harm reduction approaches, alternative approaches to pain management for the non-specialist, and prescribing guidelines.

Treating Opioid Addiction is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction medicine physicians, primary care physicians, drug addiction counselors, students, trainees, scholars, and public health officials interested in the effects and impactof opioids in the clinical and epidemiological context.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    John F. Kelly

  • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Sarah E. Wakeman

About the editors

John F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP
Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Addiction Medicine
Harvard Medical School; Director Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Recovery Research Institute
Program Director MGH Addiction Recovery Management Service
Associate Director MGH Center for Addiction Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

 

Sarah E. Wakeman, MD
Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Program Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Medicine Fellowship 
Boston, MA, USA


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Treating Opioid Addiction

  • Editors: John F. Kelly, Sarah E. Wakeman

  • Series Title: Current Clinical Psychiatry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16257-3

  • Publisher: Humana Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16256-6Published: 30 July 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16257-3Published: 15 July 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2626-241X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-2398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Pain Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Public Health

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