Substance abuse disorders : evidence and experience / / editors, Hamid Ghodse [and three others]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.86
• Soggetto topico: Substance abuse; Substance abuse - Etiology; Substance abuse - Treatment
• Persona (resp. second.): GhodseHamid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Substance Abuse Disorders; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; SECTION 1 DRUGS; 1 Epidemiology of Drug Abuse: A Global Overview; 2 Drug Abuse: Prevention; 3 Drug Abuse: Treatment and Management; 4 Commentaries; 4.1 Measuring, Preventing and Treating Global Drug Abuse; 4.2 Epidemiology, Treatment and Prevention of Addictive Disorders; 4.3 The Global Challenge of Illegal Drugs; 4.4 Drug Misuse - Lessons Learned Through the Modern Science; 4.5 An Integrated Approach to Drug-Abuse Treatment: The Role of Prevention; 4.6 Informing the Field of Substance Misuse: Progress and Challenges ; SECTION 2 ALCOHOL5 Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse: Extent and Nature of the Problem; 6 The Prevention of Alcohol Problems; 7 Alcohol-Use Disorders - Treatment and Management; 8 Commentaries; 8.1 Perverse Interpretation of Evidence in Alcohol Policy; 8.2 Implementing the Evidence Base; 8.3 Further Insights into the Burden of Alcohol Use on Mental Illness; 8.4 Alcohol Issues - What Next?; 8.5 The Evolving Global Burden of Disease from Alcohol; 8.6 A Timely Review of Alcohol Related Disorders; SECTION 3 TOBACCO; 9 Epidemiology of Tobacco Use; 10 Tobacco Use: Prevention ; 11 Tobacco Abuse: Treatment and Management12 Commentaries; 12.1 Challenges in Reducing the Disease Burden of Tobacco Smoking; 12.2 Public Health and Tobacco Use; 12.3 Decreasing the Health Hazards of Tobacco: Necessary and Possible, But not Easy; 12.4 Overcoming State Addiction to Tobacco Industry; 12.5 The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: The Importance of Article 14; 12.6 Comments Regarding Epidemiology of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Use: Prevention and Tobacco Abuse: Treatment and Management; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Substance abuse disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders and are frequently comorbid with other psychiatric and health conditions and accompanied by social problems; however, they remain under-recognized and under-treated. Many physicians and mental health practitioners receive little-to-no training in the identification and treatment of these disorders. Approaches to their prevention include some of the major success stories in modern public health as well as some of the deepest controversies in public life. This new title in the WPA series Evidence and Experience i
• Titolo autorizzato: Substance abuse disorders
• ISBN: 1-283-37292-4; 9786613372925; 0-470-97594-6; 0-470-97507-5; 0-470-97508-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910130873303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: WPA series, evidence and experience in psychiatry (Unnumbered)