| Description |
x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Drugs of abuse ; v. 3 |
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Drugs of abuse (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 3
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| Contents |
(cont) Clinical manifestations of cocaine abuse -- Acute effects of cocaine -- Chronic effects of cocaine -- Medical complications of cocaine abuse -- Cardiovascular complications -- Respiratory complications -- Neurotoxic effects -- Impact on sexuality -- Cocaine and AIDS -- Other adverse effects -- Cocaine and pregnancy -- Cocaine and other psychiatric disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Personality disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Eating disorders -- Medical complications of polydrug abuse -- Routes of administration -- Outpatient treatment -- Cocaine treatment programs -- Group therapy -- Role of twelve-step (self-help) groups -- Residential treatment -- Follow-up care and family involvement -- Inpatient treatment and relapse prevention -- Benefits of inpatient care -- Qualities of an inpatient program -- Relapse prevention -- Outcome of treatment -- Problems with cocaine treatment -- Pharmacological treatments -- Pharmacological treatment of cocaine craving -- Bromocriptine -- Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) -- Carbamazepine -- Buprenorphine -- Naltrexone -- Miscellaneous agents |
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(cont) Role of drug testing -- Evolution of drug testing -- "Demographics" of drug testing -- Most common forms of urinalysis -- Immunoassay screens -- Chromatographic screens -- Confirmation tests -- Evaluation of testing facilities -- Eating disorders and substance abuse -- Demographics of eating disorders -- Theories behind the comorbidity of eating disorders and substance abuse -- Common biological pathways for eating disorders and substance abuse -- Treatment implications -- Physicians, the elderly, adolescents and substance abuse -- Medical profession -- Drug use among medical students and residents -- Drug use among physicians -- Characteristics of the impaired physician -- Identifying the impaired physician -- Treating the substance-abusing physician -- Elderly and substance abuse -- Adolescents and substance abuse -- Promoting cigarettes to adolescents -- Family strategies in adolescent drug abuse -- Treating the adolescent cocaine user -- Multiple substances of abuse -- Ecstasy -- Methamphetamine ("Ice") |
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Cocaine in the 1990s -- Prevention: the best treatment -- Persistence of substance abuse -- Evolution of cocaine trafficking -- Remaining challenges -- History of cocaine -- Cocaine "miracle" of the 19th century -- First cocaine "crash" -- Decline of cocaine use -- 1960s -- Evolution of cocaine use -- Other forms of cocaine -- Rise of polydrug abuse -- Success of antidrug campaigns -- Changes in youth attitudes -- Changes in adult attitudes -- Remaining challenges -- Legalization debate -- Neurobiology of cocaine -- Role of reward in drug use -- Stimulant reinforcement -- Serotonin and other factors in stimulant reward -- Nonpharmacological factors -- Physiological aspects of drug memory -- Effects of varying routes of administration -- Rewarding effects of other drugs -- Cannabis reinforcement -- Opiate reinforcement -- Learning as an outcome of reinforcement -- Withdrawal -- Role of craving in relapse -- Other areas of interest -- Nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in reward -- Locus coeruleus in withdrawal -- Clinical implications |
| Analysis |
Narcotics |
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Narcotics |
| Notes |
'A comprehensive series for clinicians' - Series subtitle |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cocaine abuse -- Treatment.
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Cocaine abuse.
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Cocaine -- Physiological effect.
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Cocaine.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy.
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| LC no. |
92045165 |
| ISBN |
0306443864 |
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