Pagliaros’ Comprehensive Guide to Drugs and Substances of Abuse offers a timely, authoritative, referenced analysis of trends in abuse of both prescribed medications and illicit substances not covered in standard therapeutics texts.

A comprehensive, easy to use resource this Guide will enable health care professionals to quickly retrieve pertinent information on specific drugs or substances in 101 individual monographs.

Key Features:

• The only comprehensive book on drugs and substances of abuse written specifically for health care providers
• Co-authors have over 20 years of clinical experience and have written more clinical pharmacology textbooks for health care professionals than any other living authors
• Contains more than 100 monographs on drugs and substances of abuse.
• Monographs are arranged in alphabetical order to facilitate rapid access to necessary data

Each monograph contains:

• Name of drug or substance of abuse
• Brand of trade name(s)
• Street name(s) if any
• Pharmacologic classification
• Brief overview

Contents

Part I

1. The Psychodepressants
2. The Psychostimulants
3. The Psychodelics

Part II

Monographs of Drugs and Substances of Abuse (A – Z)

Appendices:

• Abbreviations
• Glossary of Drugs and Substances of Abuse and Related Terms

Index

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