Bookedited by John B. Saunders, Katherine M. Conigrave, Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, E. Jane Marshall, Walter Ling, Susumu Higuchi.
1. The nature of addictive disorders / John B. Saunders -- 2. Epidemiology and prevention / Peter Anderson, Katherine M. Conigrave, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, and Tim Stockwell -- 3. Pharmacology and pathophysiology / Kazutaka Ikeda, Daisuke Nishizawa, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders -- 4. The scope of intervention / Sawitri Assanangkornchai and John B. Saunders -- 5. Establishing the diagnosis / Glenys Dore, Noeline C. Latt, and John B. Saunders -- 6. Acute care / Glenys Dore, Noeline C. Latt, E. Jane Marshall, John B. Saunders, and Peter Thompson -- 7. Ongoing management of substance use disorders / Stephen Jurd and John B. Saunders -- 8. Tobacco / Renee Bittoun, Katherine M. Conigrave, Hisatsugu Miyata, and Nicholas Zwar -- 9. Alcohol / Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Colin Drummond, Noeline C. Latt, E. Jane Marshall, David J. Nutt, Richard Saitz, and John B. Saunders -- 10. Cannabis / H. Valerie Curran, Margaret Haney, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders -- 11. Opioids / Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, John B. Saunders, Andrew J. Saxon, and George Woody -- 12. Pain and opioids / James Bell -- 13. Benzodiazepines and the other sedative-hypnotics / Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, and John B. Saunders -- 14. Psychostimulants / Glenys Dore, Walter Ling, and David J. Nutt -- 15. Hallucinogens and dissociative drugs / David J. Nutt and Adam R. Winstock -- 16. Other drugs / Jenny Bearn, Jonathan Brett, Adam Brodie, Katherine M. Conigrave, Shivani Khan, Janie Sheridan, Iain Smith, Catherine Woodstock Striley, David Taylor, and Adam R. Winstock -- 17. Polysubstance use / Jason P. Connor and Gerald F. X. Feeney -- 18. Injecting drug use / Robert Batey, Katherine M. Conigrave, Paul Haber, and John Strang -- 19. Gambling / Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Sanju George, Yasunobu Komoto, David J. Nutt, <i>and Taku Sato</i> -- 20. Gaming / Hideki Nakayama and Hiroshi Sakuma -- 21. Other addictive disorders / Takayuki Harada, Susumu Higuchi, Satoko Mihara, and John B. Saunders -- 22. Psychiatric comorbidity / Glenys Dore, Anne Lingford-Hughes, and John B. Saunders -- 23. Specific clinical situations / Noeline C. Latt, John B. Saunders, and Sue Wilson -- 24. Special populations / Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Tatiana Balachova, Yvonne Bonomo, Katherine M. Conigrave, Ilana B. Crome, Glenys Dore, Bradley Freeburn, Marianne Jauncey, Michael Levy, Corinne Lim, Ross McCormick, and Kim Wolff -- 25. Substance use and specific health care settings / Jonathan Brett, Tim Neumann, Richard Saitz, John B. Saunders, Claudia Spies, and Pierluigi Struzzo -- 26. Legal and ethical issues / Katherine M. Conigrave, Glenys Dore, Emily Finch, Ralph Hingson, Noeline C. Latt, Sally Porter, and John B. Saunders.