Addiction Medicine
An Evidence-Based Handbook
by Darius A. Rastegar
Addiction Medicine 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.
Features:
- Practical and evidence-based guidelines for evaluating, treating, and managing patients with substance abuse problems
- 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
Contents
- Addiction From a Clinical Perspective
- The Medical Encounter: Screening, Confronting, and Motivating
- Overview of Addiction Treatment
- Alcohol
- Sedative-Hypnotics
- Opiods
- Tobacco
- Cocaine and Other Stimulants
- Phencyclidine and Hallucinogens
- Marijuana
- Inhalants: Volatile Organic Compounds, Nitrites, and Anesthetics
- Anabolic Steroids and Athletes
- Prescription Drug Abuse
- Medical Care for the Addiction Patient
- Psychiatric Illness and Addiction
- Special Populations
Appendices
Index
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