Description
This handbook provides practical and evidence-based guidelines for evaluating, treating, and managing patients with substance abuse problems. The opening chapters provide an overview of key clinical issues, strategies for interviewing, screening, confronting, and motivating patients, and various treatment modalities. A major portion of the book focuses on diagnosis, medical complications, and treatment of specific drug addictions. Chapters on smoking and prescription drug abuse are also included. Other chapters discuss medical care for the addicted patient, psychiatric illness and addiction, and substance abuse in special populations. Specific treatment protocols are provided and each chapter ends with annotated references to the literature.
Features
--Detailed chapters on the full range of abused drugs cover epidemiology, drug effects, diagnosis, medical complications, and treatment
--Specific treatment protocols are provided
--Includes a chapter on smoking
--Includes a chapter on prescription drug abuse, with strategies for prevention
--Includes chapters on medical care for the addicted patient, psychiatric illness and addiction, and substance abuse in special populations
--Each chapter ends with annotated references to the literature
About the Author(s)
- Darius A Rastegar MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Chemical Dependence, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
- Michael I Fingerhood MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Center for Chemical Dependence, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
Specs
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781761543
- Trim Size: 4.375 x 8
- Pages: 320
- Pub Date: Nov 17, 2005
- Weight: 1.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION: About This Handbook / Overview of Addiction / Legal Issues / A Note on Terminology / References
ADDICTION FROM A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE: Addiction and Primary Care / The Physiology of Addiction / Disease Model / Moral Failure Model / Psychosocial Model / Stages of Addiction/Recovery / Dealing with Relapse / Annotated References
THE MEDICAL INTERVIEW: SCREENING, CONFRONTING, AND MOTIVATING: Background / Screening for Addiction / Drug Testing / Motivational Interviewing / Dealing with Denial / Confrontation / Annotated References
OVERVIEW OF ADDICTION TREATMENT: Background / Treatment Setting / Psychosocial Treatment / Pharmacotherapy / Aversive Therapy / Alternative Therapies / Limitations of Addiction Treatment Research / Annotated References
ALCOHOL: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
SEDATIVE HYPNOTICS: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
OPIOIDS: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
TOBACCO: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
COCAINE AND OTHER STIMULANTS: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Caffeine / Annotated References
PHENCYCLIDINE AND HALLUCINOGENS: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
MARIJUANA: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Annotated References
INHALANTS: VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, NITRITES, AND ANESTHETICS: Background / Epidemiology / Volatile Organic Compounds: Fuels, Solvents, Adhesives, Cleaning Agents and Aerosols / Volatile Anesthetics: Nitrous Oxide and Others / Nitrites / Treatment / Annotated References
ANABOLIC STEROIDS AND ATHLETES: Background / Epidemiology / Drug Effects / Diagnosis / Medical Complications / Treatment / Other Drugs / Annotated References
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE: Background / Epidemiology / Abused Prescription Drugs / Over-the-Counter Medications / Markers of Abuse / Strategies to Avoid Prescription Drug Abuse / Annotated References
MEDICAL CARE FOR THE ADDICTED PATIENT: Background / Medical Complications of Injection Drug Use / Infectious Complications / Cutaneous Complications / Neuromuscular Complications / Pulmonary Complications / Cardiovascular Complications / Renal Complications / Medical Care of Patients on Methadone / Treating Pain in the Opiate Addict / Dealing with Difficult Patients / Annotated References
PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND ADDICTION: Background / Epidemiology / Affective Disorders / Anxiety Disorders / Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Schizophrenia / Personality Disorders / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) / Annotated References
SPECIAL POPULATIONS: Adolescents / Prisoners / Older Adults / Health Professionals / Women / Families and Co-dependence / Annotated References
Appendix A. DSM-IV Criteria for Substance Dependence
Appendix B. DSM-IV Criteria for Substance Abuse
