Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects, Second EditionUpdated and expanded to reflect changes in recent years, this second edition covers virtually every aspect of this dangerous drug, including history, pharmacology, pathology, physiology, treatment, clinical and forensic psychology, and legal aspects. This edition features new chapters on criminal- and civil-forensic applications including an in-depth discussion of recent laws. Pointing out important cases, articles, and statistics, the text also presents chapters on neuropsychological testing; normative data on risk analysis and violence prediction; the physiology of tweaking, the most dangerous stage of the meth cycle; and the efficacy of treatment programs including examples from newly established drug courts. |
Contents
Methamphetamine Abuse Myths | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
The Authors | |
Background and Scope | |
Chapter 1 The History of Drug Control | |
Chapter 2 Global Perspectives on Methamphetamine | |
Biology Behavior and Law | |
Chapter 8 Expert Testimony | |
Chapter 9 Criminal Responsibility | |
Chapter 10 Criminal Responsibility Evaluation in a Methamphetamine Murder Case | |
Chapter 11 Mitigation in Sentencing | |
Chapter 12 Rights Interrogation Competency to Confess and Competency to Stand Trial | |
Chapter 13 Dangerousness Prediction in Methamphetamine Cases | |
Treatment | |
Chapter 14 Treatment | |
Chapter 3 Mechanisms of Methamphetamine Action | |
Chapter 4 MDMA | |
Chapter 5 Effects and Diagnosis of Methamphetamine Use | |
Chapter 6 Empirical Evidence of the Effects of Methamphetamine on Aggression | |
Forensics | |
Chapter 7 Methamphetamine and Pregnancy | |
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