Substance Use Disorders provides new information from the latest research studies and enhancements to the step-by-step process intervening in a lifelong illness pattern.

Features:

• Written in a comfortable first-person style, uninterrupted by citations, with a thorough list of suggested readings at the end of the book
• Timely advice with the latest information on treatments for opioid and sedative dependence
• Easily accessible paperback format

Contents

General Principles of Substance Use Disorders

1. An Initial Approach
2. Types of Use
3. The Substance of Use Disorders
4. Screening Techniques
5. The First Interview
6. Outpatient Logistics
7. Laboratory Studies

Substance Review

8. Alcohol
9. Other Sedatives
10. Sedative Detoxification
11. Medications During Sedative Recovery
12. Nicotine
13. Stimulants
14. Opiates/Opioids
15. Opioid Detoxification
16. Opiod Maintenance Programs
17. Marijuana
18. LSD
19. Other Drugs
20. Substance-Induced Disorders

Substance Use Treatment

21. Treatment Settings
22. Twelve-step Programs
23. Relapse Prevention
24. Who Treats Substance Use?
25. Treatment Dilemmas
26. Patient Placement Criteria
27. Spirituality

Appendices

Index

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