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1. The nature of addiction -- 2. Who becomes addicted? -- 3. The health consequences of alcohol and other drug use and dependence -- 4. Theories of addiction : causes and maintenance of addiction -- 5. Alcohol -- 6. Nicotine -- 7. Cannabis -- 8. Opioids -- 9. Psychostimulants : cocaine, amphetamines and ecstasy -- 10. Addiction : looking ahead.

"Addiction to cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs such as opioids is a severe problem for society. The new addition of this book examines recent progress in our understanding of the biological basis of addiction and recent progress in treatment strategies"--

A concise overview of this complex affliction for all those affected by addiction -- addicts, family members, and even employers. Download Plain Text version. At least one of every four people in America has had some experience with addiction -- either personally or through a family member. Addiction and its consequences cost billions of dollars each year in direct medical costs, lost productivity, accidents, crime, and corruption. Yet as a disease, addiction is still largely misunderstood. Starting with the question "what is addiction?" Elizabeth Connell Henderson takes the reader t

An evidence-based, concise and practical guide to the management of people with substance use disorders. Addiction Medicine, Second Edition, covers specific types of psychoactive substance and treatment options, focusing on specific groups placing addiction medicine within the broad professional and legal context

"Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal addiction ministries in Puerto Rico, the essays are linked by the contributors' attention to the dynamics--including the cultural, scientific, legal, religious, personal, and social--that shape the meaning of "addiction" in particular settings. They examine how it is understood and experienced among professionals working in the criminal justice system of a rural West Virginia community; Hispano residents of New Mexico's Espanola Valley, where the rate of heroin overdose is among the highest in the United States; homeless women participating in an outpatient addiction therapy program in the Midwest; machine-gaming addicts in Las Vegas, and many others. The collection's editors suggest "addiction trajectories" as a useful rubric for analyzing the changing meanings of addiction across time, place, institutions, and individual lives. Pursuing three primary trajectories, the contributors show how addiction comes into being as an object of knowledge, a site of therapeutic intervention, and a source of subjective experience."--Publisher's website

Cover image; Table of Contents; Front-matter; Copyright; Foreword: The Neuroethics of Drug Addiction; Contributors; Introduction: What is Addiction Neuroethics and Why Does it Matter?; Chapter 1. Brain Imaging in Addiction; Chapter 2. Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics; Chapter 3. Treating Opioid Dependence with Opioids; Chapter 4. Addiction Neuroscience and Tobacco Control; Chapter 5. Emerging Neurobiological Treatments of Addiction; Chapter 6. Technical, Ethical and Social Issues in the Bioprediction of Addiction Liability and Treatment Response