TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gitlow,Stuart
TI  - Substance use disorders: a practical guide
SN  - 0781769981
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Philadelphia, London
PB  - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
KW  - Substance abuse
KW  - Substance misuse
KW  - Addiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-317) and index
N2  - Revised, updated, and expanded, this handbook is a quick, concise, practical guide for clinicians treating patients with addictive disease. Using the conversational style and clinical vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry titles, Dr. Gitlow describes effective strategies for the step-by-step process of intervening in a lifelong illness pattern. This edition includes new material on buprenorphine, naltrexone, and other pharmacologic treatments, nicotine cessation therapies, and pharmacologic interventions for sedative dependence, plus a new chapter on substance-induced disorders, a thoroughly rewritten prevention chapter, and expanded coverage of treatment dilemmas and legal issues. Easy-to-use appendices provide quick access to numerous new screening tools and other frequently referenced information
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