Bookedited by Bertha Madras and Michael Kuhar.
Summary: Drug use and abuse continues to thrive in contemporary society worldwide and the instance and damage caused by addiction increases along with availability. The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System presents objective, state-of-the-art information on the impact of drug abuse on the human nervous system, with each chapter offering a specific focus on nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, sedative-hypnotics, and designer drugs. Other chapters provide a context for drug use, with overviews of use and consequences, epidemiology and risk factors, genetic.
Contents:
Drug use and its consequences / B. Madras
Genetics of substance use, abuse, cessation, and addiction : novel data implicate copy number variants / Uhl et al.
Epidemiology of drug abuse : building blocks for etiologic research / Weinberg et al.
Detection of populations at risk or addicted : screening, brief, intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in clinical settings / L. Gentilello
Cocaine : mechanism and effects in the human brain / Trifilieff et al.
Stress, anxiety, and cocaine abuse / Craige et al.
The neuropathology of drug abuse / Bittner et al.
The pathology of methamphetamine use in the human brain / S. Kish
The effects of alcohol on the human nervous system / K. Brady
The nicotine hypothesis / Brasic
Smoking effects in the human nervous system / Schuman-Olivier
Cognitive effects of nicotine / Sofuoglu et al.
Effects of cannabis and cannabinoids in the human nervous system / H. Kalant
Cannabis, cannabinoids, and the association with psychosis / Radhakrishnan et al.
Effects of MDMA on the human nervous system / McCann et al.
Sedative hypnotics / Ciraulo et al.
Hallucinogens / Chan, Mendelson
Inhalants : addiction and toxic effects in humans / Bowen et al.
Emerging designer drugs / Nichols et al.