The ASAM criteria
Subtitle: treatment for addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions
By: David Mee-Lee, MD, chief editor [and 3 others]
Contributors: American Society of Addiction Medicine
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: American Society of Addiction Medicine
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chevy Chase, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781617021978
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Substance abuse; Treatment; Standards; Psychiatry; Differential therapeutics; Patient Selection; Substance-Related Disorders; Therapy
Other titles: American Society of Addiction Medicine treatment for addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions; Treatment for addictive, substance-related, and co-occurring conditions
Work titles: ASAM patient placement criteria for the treatment of psychoactive substance use disorders
Notes: The first edition, published in 1991, has title: ASAM patient placement criteria for the treatment of psychoactive substance use disorders. The second edition (1996) has title: ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) patient placement criteria for the treatment of substance-related disorders. The second edition-revised (2001) has title: ASAM patient placement criteria for the treatment of substance-related disorders. This publication incorporates and supersedes all previous editions.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The ASAM Criteria : then and now; title: Applications; title: Intake and assessment; title: Matching multidimensional severity and level of function with type and intensity of service; title: Service planning and placement; title: Addressing withdrawal management and intoxication management; title: Level of care placement; title: Application to adult special populations; title: Emerging understandings of addiction.