Substance use disorders : a practical guide

✍ Scribed by Stuart Gitlow MD MPH

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Practical guides in psychiatry
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Revised, updated, and expanded, this handbook is a quick, concise, practical guide for clinicians treating patients with addictive disease. Using the conversational style and clinical vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry titles, Dr. Gitlow describes effective strategies for the step-by-step process of intervening in a lifelong illness pattern. This edition includes new material on buprenorphine, naltrexone, and other pharmacologic treatments, nicotine cessation therapies, and pharmacologic interventions for sedative dependence, plus a new chapter on substance-induced disorders, a thoroughly rewritten prevention chapter, and expanded coverage of treatment dilemmas and legal issues. Easy-to-use appendices provide quick access to numerous new screening tools and other frequently referenced information.

The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. 1 General principles of substance use disorders. An initial approach --
Types of use --
The substance use disorders --
Screening techniques --
The first interview --
Outpatient logistics --
Laboratory studies --
Pt 2 Substance review. Alcohol --
Other sedatives --
Sedative detoxification --
Medications during sedative recovery --
Nicotine --
Stimulants --
Opiates/opioids --
Opioid detoxification --
Opioid maintenance programs --
Marijuana --
LSD --
Other drugs --
Substance-induced disorders --
pt. 3 Substance use treatment. Treatment settings --
Twelve step programs --
Prevention --
Who treats substance use? --
Treatment dilemmas --
Patient placement criteria --Legal issues --
Spirituality / by Stanley E. Gitlow.