Bookedited by John B. Saunders, Katherine M. Conigrave, Noeline C. Latt, David J. Nutt, E. Jane Marshall, Walter Ling, Susumu Higuchi.
Contents:
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.