Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use DisordersThe Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders uses clear, highly accessible language to guide the reader through the entire continuum of addiction care and present the latest scientific understanding of substance use and abuse. This comprehensive, informative reference provides a complete overview of diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about chemical addictions. Both biomedical and psychiatric conditions and complications are thoroughly covered. Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health series, Substance Use Disorders features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes:
In addition to the fundamentals of chemical addictions and treatment, Substance Use Disorders covers some of the most cutting-edge topics in the field, including innovative treatment approaches, outcome demands, brain science, relapse-prevention strategies, designer drugs, spirituality, and other areas. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers, from those in the helping professions, to law enforcement personnel, to recommended reading for clients currently in treatment. |
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... Disorder or may be the consequence of substance use and abuse. While most Substance Use Disorders can be lifethreatening at some point, untreated serious medical problems can be particularly dangerous. Chapter 6 reviews such risks ...
... Disorder or may be the consequence of substance use and abuse. While most Substance Use Disorders can be lifethreatening at some point, untreated serious medical problems can be particularly dangerous. Chapter 6 reviews such risks ...
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Substance Use Disorders Nicholas R. Lessa, Walter F. Scanlon. Biological Basis of Chemical Addiction All mood ... psychotic disturbance, grand mal seizures, and possibly death. It is also worth noting that an alcohol hangover is ...
Substance Use Disorders Nicholas R. Lessa, Walter F. Scanlon. Biological Basis of Chemical Addiction All mood ... psychotic disturbance, grand mal seizures, and possibly death. It is also worth noting that an alcohol hangover is ...
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Substance Use Disorders Nicholas R. Lessa, Walter F. Scanlon. Caffeine: Drug of Abuse? — The widespread use of culturally sanctioned caffeine-containing foods presents an intriguing paradox. On one hand, itis the experience of most ...
Substance Use Disorders Nicholas R. Lessa, Walter F. Scanlon. Caffeine: Drug of Abuse? — The widespread use of culturally sanctioned caffeine-containing foods presents an intriguing paradox. On one hand, itis the experience of most ...
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Page 10 - A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period: 1.
Page xxi - Report to the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Alcoholism Services. New York, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Epidemiology of Mental Disorders Research Department, 1986 Susser E, Struening EL: First Time Users of the New York City Shelter System: Report to the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Alcoholism Services.
Page 50 - ... 7. Have you ever had delirium tremens (DTs). severe shaking, heard voices or seen things that weren't there after heavy drinking?
Page 142 - Elvy, GA, Wells, JE, & Baird, KA (1988). Attempted referral as intervention for problem drinking in the general hospital.
Page 27 - States opium in any form or any preparation or derivative thereof; Provided. ^That opium and preparations and derivatives thereof, other than smoking opium or opium prepared for smoking, may be imported for medicinal purposes only, under regulations which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to prescribe, and when so imported shall be subject to the duties which are now or may hereafter be imposed by law.
Page 50 - Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a row because you were drinking?
Page 10 - ... markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance 2. withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following: a) the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance b) the same (or a closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms 3.
Page 28 - package " where it occurs the second and last time in the act entitled "An act to amend section 8 of an act entitled 'An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating Irnflio therein, and for other purposes...
Page 10 - ... there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use 5 a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (eg visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (eg chain-smoking) or recover from its effects 6 important social, occupational or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use...
Page 28 - An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes...