Overview
- Editors:
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Herman Friedman
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The University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
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Steven Specter
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The University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
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Thomas W. Klein
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The University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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- Nicholas R. S. Hall, Maureen P. O’Grady, Robert A. Menzies
Pages 13-23
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- Gabriel G. Nahas, Eliott F. Osserman
Pages 25-32
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- Steven Specter, Gerald Lancz
Pages 47-56
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- Julie Y. Djeu, Min Wang, Herman Friedman
Pages 57-62
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- Bernhard Watzl, Philip Scuderi, Ronald R. Watson
Pages 63-70
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- A. M. Zimmerman, N. Titishov, R. Mechoulam, S. Zimmerman
Pages 71-80
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- G. A. Cabral, R. Vásquez
Pages 93-105
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- Susan Pross, Catherine Newton, Thomas Klein, Ray Widen, Judy Smith, Herman Friedman
Pages 113-117
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- Lois J. Paradise, Angela Pruitt, Andrew W. O’B. Burgess
Pages 127-133
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- Steven Specter, Gerald Lancz, Gina Westrich, Herman Friedman
Pages 135-141
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- Robert M. Donahoe, Arthur Falek, John J. Madden, Janet K. A. Nicholson, Peter Bokos, Karl Gallegos et al.
Pages 143-150
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- Thomas W. Klein, Catherine Newton, Herman Friedman
Pages 151-158
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- David M. Novick, Miriam Ochshorn, Mary Jeanne Kreek
Pages 159-170
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- Phillip K. Peterson, Burt M. Sharp, Genya Gekker, Brooks Jackson, Henry H. Balfour Jr.
Pages 171-178
About this book
This volume is based on the program of the International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and Immunodeficiency held in Clearwater Beach, Florida. It was sponsored by the University of South Florida College of Medicine with the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. During the past few decades, drugs of abuse, including marijuana, cocaine, opiates and alcohol, have been studied by biomedical scientists in terms of the systemic effects of the drugs as well as alterations in neurophysiology and the psychology. More recently, the scope of such investigations has been broadened to include alterations within the immune system, and the influence of altered immunity on physiological and psychological consequences of drug abuse. In this regard, participants in the Clearwater Beach conference provided new information concern ing both basic and clinical aspects of drugs of abuse and immunity, especially immunodeficiency. Advances have been made in recent years in understanding the nature and mechanisms regulating the immune response and the mechanisms by which drugs may influence immune responses. In particular, the emergence of psychoneuroimmunology as a new discipline has heightened interest in immune responses influenced by psychoactive drugs. This has resulted in interdisciplinary investigations involving clinical and basic scientists including microbiologists, immu nologists, physiologists, psychiatrists, oncologists and others. The recreational use of the above mentioned drugs by large numbers of individuals has aroused serious concern about the consequences of this activity.
