Addiction and the medical complications of drug abuse
By: edited by Steven B. Karch.
Contributors: Karch, Steven B.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781420054439
Subjects: Substance-Related Disorders -- drug therapy; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome -- drug therapy; Substance-Related Disorders -- complications; Drug abuse -- Treatment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The principles of addiction medicine / Duncan Raistrick; title: Substitute prescribing : opioid-specific prescribing / Kim Wolff; title: Substitute prescribing : buprenorphine maintenance prescribing / Nick Lintzeris; title: Treatment of withdrawal symptoms / Joanna Banbery; title: Replacement prescribing / Kim Wolff; title: Management of comorbidity / Duncan Raistrick; title: Toxicologic issues / Kim Wolff; title: Medical aspects of drug abuse / Shoshana Zevin and Neal L. Benowitz; title: Emergency management of drug abuse / Brett A. Roth, Neal L. Benowitz, and Kent R. Olson.