La non reconnaissance collective des etats : cours et travaux n° 9

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524409103321
• Autore: Stefan, Talmon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Pedone, 2007
• ISBN: 978-2-233-00509-0
• Collana: Universite Pantheon - Assas (Paris II) Institut des hautes Etudes internationales de Paris
• Locazione: DSI
• Collocazione: DC114
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Pain and chemical dependency [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Howard S. Smith, Steven D. Passik

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828056803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-19-770817-X; 1-283-23212-X; 9786613232120; 0-19-971980-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithHoward S. <1956->; PassikSteven D
• Disciplina: 615.7822
• Soggetti: Opioid abuse - Treatment; Opioids - Therapeutic use - Complications; Chronic pain - Chemotherapy - Complications; Opioids - Side effects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Addiction and related issues -- pt. 3. The problem of clinical pain -- pt. 4. Current approaches to management of the chemically dependent patient -- pt. 5. Clinical management of pain in chemical dependency -- pt. 6. Aberrant drug-taking considerations -- pt. 7. Pain and chemical dependency : the interface.
• Sommario/riassunto: Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addiction in their training and readily admit that instruction on the interface of pain and addiction is nonexistent. The recent problem of prescription drug abuse has only served to highlight the fact that these two worlds need unificationthose who treat pain must be informed about the risks of controlled substances and those who treat addiction need to better and more fully understand their benefits. Nowhere is the pooled knowledge of pain management