Hamid Ghodse

Ghodse's Drugs and Addictive Behaviour

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of a classic text providing a comprehensive overview of substance misuse and dependence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• ISBN-13: 9780521898829
• ISBN-10: 052189882X
• Artikelnr.: 30216008

Autorenporträt

Hamid Ghodse CBE is President of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board and Professor and Director of Psychiatry at the International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Drugs, addiction and behaviour
2. The global drug problem ¿ international perspectives
3. Drugs of abuse and dependence
4. Alcohol
5. Tobacco use and addiction
6. Assessment
7. General measures of intervention
8. Specific methods of treatment
9. Complications of drug abuse and their treatment
10. Special problems
11. Follow-up and treatment outcome
12. Prevention of drug abuse
13. The law and drug-control policies
References and further reading
Appendices
Index.

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Preface; Introduction; 1. Drugs, addiction and behaviour; 2. The global drug problem - international perspectives; 3. Drugs of abuse and dependence; 4. Alcohol; 5. Tobacco use and addiction; 6. Assessment; 7. General measures of intervention; 8. Specific methods of treatment; 9. Complications of drug abuse and their treatment; 10. Special problems; 11. Follow-up and treatment outcome; 12. Prevention of drug abuse; 13. The law and drug-control policies; References and further reading; Appendices; Index.

Rezensionen

'... when it comes to applying the evidence of the real-life clinical situations that face a psychiatrist working with people who use illegal drugs, this book reaches the parts that a systematic review-driven approach cannot always reach ...' British Journal of Psychiatry