Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Clinician's guide to mental illness	Ihsan M. Salloum,Dennis C. Daley,Dennis C Daley	This book provides a comprehensive review of common adult mental disorders and substance use disorders. The chapters were written by teams of researchers and clinicians, thus providing an integration…	OL12327056W
Treating adult substance abuse using family behavior therapy	Brad Donohue	"Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps adult patients address substance abuse as well as coexisting problem behaviors, including family dysfunction, employment, and …	OL15521176W
Addiction and Virtue	Kent J. Dunnington	What is the nature of addiction? Neither of the two dominant models (disease or choice) adequately accounts for the experience of those who are addicted or of those who are seeking to help them. In t…	OL15746537W
Practicing harm reduction psychotherapy	Patt Denning	"This acclaimed clinical guide has helped thousands of clinicians put the proven principles of harm reduction into practice with therapy clients who have substance use problems. Written by pioneers i…	OL16152884W
Integrated group therapy for bipolar disorder and substance abuse	Roger D. Weiss	"Packed with practical clinical tools, this book presents an empirically supported treatment expressly designed for clients with both bipolar disorder and substance use disorders. Integrated group th…	OL16163091W
Treating substance abuse	Scott T. Walters	"Widely adopted, this state-of-the-art text and clinical resource captures the breadth of current knowledge about substance abuse and its treatment. For each of the major evidence-based treatment app…	OL16168483W
Addiction medicine	Bankole A. Johnson	This book attempts to "bridge the gap between the explosion of neuroscientific and behavioral knowledge in the past three decades and treatment delivery in clinical practice. As such, it should fulfi…	OL16450608W
Genetic research on addiction	Audrey R. Chapman	"The manner in which genetic research associated with addiction is conducted, interpreted and translated into clinical practice and policy initiatives raises important social, ethical and legal issue…	OL16600028W
Clean	David Sheff	Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science -- not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful…	OL16802572W
Publishing Addiction Science	Michal Miovský,Thomas Babor,Richard Pates,Kerstin Stenius,Jean O’Reilly,Paul Candon	Publishing Addiction Science is a comprehensive guide for addiction scientists facing the complex process of contributing to scholarly journals. Written by an international group of addiction journ…	OL16996997W
Drugs Intoxication And Society	Angus Bancroft	"Drugs and intoxication have been facts of human life for millennia. Across the world, many people use illicit drugs, smoke, and drink alcohol. Yet very little has been written about their experience…	OL17396072W
Mind drugs	Margaret O. Hyde	Leading authorities on drugs discuss the use, abuse, and the effects of marijuana, alcohol, LSD, heroin, cocaine, PCP, and other drugs and the alternatives to drug use.	OL17817063W
Taking sides	Eileen L. Daniel	This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in health and contemporary society. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading social scientists, health care p…	OL17849768W
The ADA Practical Guide to Substance Use Disorders and Safe Prescribing	Michael O'Neil	Dentists have been inundated by patients with an array of complicated medical conditions and pain/sedation management issues. This is in addition to a variety of legal regulations dentists must follo…	OL17857337W
Prescription drug abuse	Margaret Haerens,Lynn M. Zott	The information in this volume provides insight into the impact and consequences of the prescription drug abuse problem in the United States, the causes of prescription drug addiction, and proposed a…	OL17875197W
Physical illness and drugs of abuse	Adam J. Gordon	"The timely recognition of physical health problems in patients with severe mental disorders is emerging as an important priority in the medical health field. Although it is well known that persons w…	OL18355485W
In the arms of Morpheus	Barbara Hodgson	Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confession…	OL1840605W
The addict	Michael Stein	The Addict opens a window on the very private world of prescription drug addiction, revealing the harrowing and riveting story of a young woman whose life has been taken over by an impulse that she c…	OL1939612W
Drugs, society, & human behavior	Carl L. Hart	Drugs, Society and Human Behavior provides the latest information on drug use and its effects on society as well as on the individual. Trusted for more than 40 years by both instructors and students,…	OL19668940W
Prescription drugs	Sylvia Engdahl	"Each anthology is composed of a wide spectrum of primary sources written by many of the foremost authorities in their respective fields. This unique approach provides students with a concise view of…	OL20120292W