Overview
- Comprehensive in scope regarding substance use disorder diagnosis and management
- Includes latest guidelines from the American Society of Addiction Medicine
- Provides a range of up to date clinical tools to make recognition and management practical and efficient for clinicians
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Basics
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Front Matter
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Psychoactive Substance Dependencies
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About this book
This practical and timely book provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art guidance on how primary care clinicians can best care for patients with substance use disorders. The book covers the major drugs of abuse, as well as the more recent ones, detailing the biology of various addictions and all dimensions of clinical diagnosis and management.  It is organized in four parts: (1) The Basics, (2) Psychoactive Substance Dependencies, (3) Diagnosis, Treatment, Recovery, Relapse, and the Family, and (4) Special Groups. Part I, The Basics, consists of an overview, the various definitions of substance dependence, and the pharmacology of addictive substances.  Chapter 1, Overview, is an introductory chapter that covers material common to the entire field of substance dependence.  Chapter 2 covers the various definitions of substance dependence, and Chapter 3 reviews the pharmacology of addictive substances. Part II, Psychoactive Substance Dependencies, explains the various drug dependencies—alcohol dependence, sedative-hypnotic dependence, opioid dependence, stimulant dependence, nicotine dependence, cannabis dependence, dissociative dependence, inhalant dependence, hallucinogen dependence, and anabolic steroid dependence.  Part III addresses diagnosis, treatment, recovery, relapse, and the family.   Part IV, Special Groups, discusses substance dependence in women, adolescents, the elderly, ethnic minority groups, co-occurring disorders, LGBT patients, HIV positive patients, and the impaired physician. In addition to primary care physicians, Substance Use Disorders: A Guide for the Primary Care Provider will serve as an invaluable resource to primary care nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as medical students, primary care residents, emergency medicine physicians, ASAM and APA certified addictionists and those studying for certification in those specialties, psychiatrists, psychologists, and alcohol/drug counselors.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
H. Thomas Milhorn, MD, PhD
Director, Didactics Section
East Central HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program
Meridian, Mississippi
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Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Jackson, Mississippi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Substance Use Disorders
Book Subtitle: A Guide for the Primary Care Provider
Authors: H. Thomas Milhorn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63040-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63039-7Published: 24 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63040-3Published: 17 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 354
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: General Practice / Family Medicine, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine