Addiction Medicine

Substance use and related addictive disorders rate amongst the top four risk factors contributing to the global burden of disease and form an increasingly important part of medical and healthcare practice. Substance use disorders can cause, mimic, underlie or complicate a large number of common medical and psychiatric disorders. Making a correct diagnosis of the substance use disorder can facilitate clinical diagnosis, avoid unnecessary tests, shorten the hospital stay and make the clinician's and patient's life easier and safer.

Part of the successful Oxford Specialist Handbooks series, the second edition of Addiction Medicine is a concise and practical guide for students, practitioners of medicine and other health professions who come into contact with people with substance use disorders. Providing up-to-date practical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management options, this edition expands on the first edition through updated content and global coverage of addiction medicine.

Edited by a global team of addiction specialists from multiple disciplines, Addiction Medicine, Second edition contains everything you need to know to assist in the assessment, diagnosis and clinical management of patients with substance use and related addictive disorders.

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, and Taku Sato
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
27: Resources

 

John B. Saunders, Professor and Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, St. John of God Health Care, Wesley Health Care, and South Pacific Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Katherine M. Conigrave, Professor in Addiction Medicine and Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospitals, Sydney, Australia, Noeline C. Latt, Addiction Medicine Specialist, Royal North Shore Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia, David J. Nutt, Professor of Psychopharmacology, Division of Brain Science, Dept of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, UK, E. Jane Marshall, Consultant Psychiatrist, Alcohol Studies, South London and Maudsley National Health Service Trust and the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's Co, Walter Ling, Professor of Psychiatry, Integrated Substance Abuse Program (ISAP), School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, and Susumu Higuchi, Director, National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Kanagawa, Japan