BookAmitava Dasgupta.
Contents:
1. Alcohol a double-edged sword
2. Drugs of abuse
3. Designer drugs including bath salts and spices
4. Combined alcohol and drug abuse
5. Link between environmental factors, personality factors, and addiction
6. Genetic polymorphisms of alcohol metabolizing enzymes associated with protection from or increased risk of alcohol abuse
7. Pharmacogenomics of abused drugs
8. Association between polymorphisms in genes encoding various receptors, transporters, and enzymes and alcohol/drug addiction
9. Methods of alcohol measurement
10. Laboratory methods for measuring drugs of abuse in urine
11. Analysis of drug abuse in serum, hair, oral fluid, sweat and meconium.