Opioid Overdose
History Opiates have been used for thousands of years, with evidence of opium poppy (known as Hul Gil, “joy plant”) cultivation more than 5000 years ago among the Sumerians in…
PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE
Potential Pharmacotherapies for Cannabis Dependence
Acknowledgments This research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse grant #DA-03746. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Michaela Bamdad and Catalina Saldaña, who read an earlier version…
Pharmacotherapy for Alcoholism and Some Related Psychiatric and Addictive Disorders: Scientific Basis and Clinical Findings
Acknowledgments We are grateful to Elsevier for permission to reproduce some text from a recent review article. We also thank the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for its…
Pharmacotherapy of Cocaine Addiction
Strategies for Selecting Candidate Medications for Testing Bottom–Up Approach: Modulation of Appetitive Drives Preclinical animal models of cocaine addiction, self-administration, reinstatement, and cue reactivity are commonly used to screen compounds…
Alcohol Withdrawal : Treatment and Application
Introduction Alcohol was used in Egypt since the time of the pharaohs, when wine played an important part in ceremonial life. . Egyptian texts more than 8000-years-old made reference to…
Substance Use–Focused Mutual-Help Groups : Processes and Outcomes
Acknowledgments Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service funds (RCS 00-001) supported preparation of the manuscript. The views expressed here are those of the author. Introduction Twelve-step…
The Therapeutic Community for Drug Abuse Treatment : A Journey Yet Unfolding in the Recovery Movement
Introduction Since we finished this chapter in 2012, there has been a notable gap in therapeutic community outcome research. Although systematic reviews of the research in recent years on the…
Adolescent Neurocognitive Development and School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Acknowledgment This paper was supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (No. DA13814, DA016090, DA020138, and P50 DA16094). Introduction Schools are an efficient and convenient choice of…
Criminal Justice System and Addiction Treatment
Introduction Compared with other nations, the United States incarcerates the largest percentage of its citizens, with close to 7 million adults and 650,000 youth under some form of criminal justice…
Community Clinics
Introduction The first section of this chapter traces the history of community clinic treatment for substance use disorders. Next, the chapter reviews various venues for community treatment and the effectiveness…
