Patients with Substance Abuse Problems: Effective Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Edgar P. Nace and Joyce A. Tinsley

Overview – Contents

 

Contents

• 1. Facing the Challenge: Patients with Substance Abuse Problems
• 2. Addiction: A Disease of the Reward Pathway
• 3. Does the Patient Know Something is Wrong?
• 4. Steps to Identification
• 5. Making a Diagnosis
• 6. Treatment Options
• 7. Adolescence
• 8. Substance Abuse in Late Life
• 9. Smoking
• 10. Pharmacologic Treatment

ISBN 10: 0-393-70511-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70511-9
January 2007 / 224 pages / Cloth