The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction helps clinicians and researchers analyze research findings and their relevance to the clinical treatment of cocaine dependency. To do this, it looks at the whole spectrum of cocaine use, from trends in cocaine-involved deaths, hospital emergencies, arrests, and treatment admissions to the specific impact the drug has on brain function. The book reports on important findings from positron emission tomography (PET) and a "binge" pattern cocaine administration model. This enables you to improve your understanding of how cocaine alters the pleasure/reward...
The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction helps clinicians and researchers analyze research findings and their relevance to the clinical treatment of coca...
Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction will help people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, as well as help reverse the failure of current medical practice to routinely alleviate pain. As noted by a 1992 publication of the United States Department of Health Services, this devastating trend contributes to unnecessary discomfort, longer recovery periods, and compromised patient outcomes. By reading this book, frustrated physicians and, perhaps more importantly, persons in pain can acquire a better understanding of the nature of pain, its connection to the...
Pain and Its Relief Without Addiction will help people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, as well as help reverse th...
Illicit drugs, despite the "war" waged by the United States government, remain a tremendous drain on the American economy and continue to take their toll on the lives of countless Americans. A comprehensive text with an instructor's manual, Drug Abuse and Social Policy in America analyzes why current US policy on the use of licit and illicit mood-altering drugs has failed. This groundbreaking book addresses differences between decriminalization, legalization, and "zero tolerance"--areas and philosophies that are poorly understood--and suggests a multipronged approach to diminish inappropriate...
Illicit drugs, despite the "war" waged by the United States government, remain a tremendous drain on the American economy and continue to take their t...
With the use of crack on the rise in American cities, there is more need than ever to understand the biological, environmental, and social factors behind cocaine addiction, as well as the pharmacological properties of cocaine that make it such an addictive drug. The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction helps clinicians and researchers analyze research findings and their relevance to the clinical treatment of cocaine dependency. To do this, it looks at the whole spectrum of cocaine use, from trends in cocaine-involved deaths, hospital emergencies, arrests, and treatment admissions to the specific...
With the use of crack on the rise in American cities, there is more need than ever to understand the biological, environmental, and social factors beh...
Gain a fuller understanding of substance addiction and treatment options Originally published in 1992 as The Facts About Drug Use, this updated edition contains new information about the effects of alcohol and recreational, mood-altering drugs on the body. The multiple causes of drug use and the options available to those dependent on drugs as a way of life are thoroughly and clearly described. Drug use affects nearly 1 out of 2 Americans and cuts across every social and economic boundary. The effects of addiction on the individual are great, and the cumulative effects on...
Gain a fuller understanding of substance addiction and treatment options Originally published in 1992 as The Facts About Drug Use, this upda...
Gain a fuller understanding of substance addiction and treatment options Originally published in 1992 as The Facts About Drug Use, this updated edition contains new information about the effects of alcohol and recreational, mood-altering drugs on the body. The multiple causes of drug use and the options available to those dependent on drugs as a way of life are thoroughly and clearly described. Drug use affects nearly 1 out of 2 Americans and cuts across every social and economic boundary. The effects of addiction on the individual are great, and the cumulative effects on...
Gain a fuller understanding of substance addiction and treatment options Originally published in 1992 as The Facts About Drug Use, this upda...
An analysis of US drug policy addressing the differences between decriminalization, legalization, and zero tolerance while arguing for an understanding of drug abuse as a societal rather than individual problem. Stimmel (Dean, graduate medical education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine) draws attention to the alcohol, tobacco, and sports industrie
An analysis of US drug policy addressing the differences between decriminalization, legalization, and zero tolerance while arguing for an understandin...
Barry Stimmel Carlton K. Erickson Martin A. Javors
Increase your awareness of the relative addiction liabilities of various drugs and drug classes that are commonly abused. A timely and masterful new book, Addiction Potential of Abused Drugs and Drug Classes clarifies, in contemporary terminology, the state of addiction liability of cocaine, opiates, alcohol, sedative-hypnotics, nicotine, anxiolytics, marijuana, inhalants and anesthetics, and PCP and hallucinogens--the nine drugs that are most abused today. Authorities combine their research expertise with the available scientific literature to evaluate those factors which contribute to the...
Increase your awareness of the relative addiction liabilities of various drugs and drug classes that are commonly abused. A timely and masterful new b...
Helps physicians and people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, and addresses the failure of current medicine to effectively alleviate pain. Discusses the nature of pain, its connections to the emotional and psychological state of patients, and the impact particular drugs have on the body. Outlines the basic concept
Helps physicians and people in pain understand why their pain is not always adequately relieved, and addresses the failure of current medicine to effe...