Drug Use and Abuse

✍ Scribed by Stephen A. Maisto, Mark Galizio, Gerard J. Connors

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 514
• Edition: 7th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

DRUG USE AND ABUSE takes an interdisciplinary approach in its coverage of current drug issues. It weaves psychological, historical, cultural, social, biological, and medical perspectives -- emphasizing the idea that a drug's effects depend not only on its properties, but also on the biological and psychological characteristics of its user. This theme is highlighted throughout, and is prominent in discussions of the individual classes of drugs, as well as in the chapters on pharmacology and psychopharmacology.

✦ Table of Contents

chaPter 1 Drug Use and Abuse
chaPter 2 Drug Use: Yesterday and today
chaPter 3 Drugs and the Nervous System
chaPter 4 Pharmacology
chaPter 5 Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development
chaPter 6 Cocaine, Amphetamines, and Related Stimulants
chaPter 7 Nicotine
chaPter 8 Caffeine
chaPter 9 Alcohol
chaPter 10 opiates
chaPter 11 Marijuana
chaPter 12 hallucinogens
chaPter 13 Psychotherapeutic Medications
chaPter 14 other Prescription and over-the-Counter Drugs
chaPter 15 treatment of Substance Use Disorders
chaPter 16 Prevention of Substance Abuse
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