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Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders

Lessa, Nicholas R., Scanlon, Walter F.

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Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders

The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders uses clear, highly accessible language to guide the reader through the entire continuum of addiction care and present the latest scientific understanding of substance use and abuse. This comprehensive, informative reference provides a complete overview of diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about chemical addictions. Both biomedical and psychiatric conditions and complications are thoroughly covered. Like all the books in the Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health series, Substance Use Disorders features a compact, easy-to-use format that includes: Vignettes and case illustrations A practical approach that emphasizes real-life treatment over theory Resources for specific readers such as clinicians, students, or patients In addition to the fundamentals of chemical addictions and treatment, Substance Use Disorders covers some of the most cutting-edge topics in the field, including innovative treatment approaches, outcome demands, brain science, relapse-prevention strategies, designer drugs, spirituality, and other areas. This straightforward resource is admirably suited for a wide variety of readers, from those in the helping professions, to law enforcement personnel, to recommended reading for clients currently in treatment.

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Title of ebook: Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders
ISBN: 9780471785149
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 1439 kb
Pages: 336
Released online for download: 02-17-2006
Author of eBook: Lessa, Nicholas R.
Author of eBook: Scanlon, Walter F.

Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health

Substance Use Disorders

Chapter One

Substance Use Disorders: Definitions, Treatment, and Misconceptions

While the use and abuse of psychoactive substances predates the printed word, it was not until 1821 that the Western world was presented with an extraordinarily new concept: drug addiction. It was then that Thomas De Quincey created a minor sensation with his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Jonnes, 1999, p. 15). Describing in disturbing detail his "tortured love affair with laudanum"-a liquid form of opium dissolved in alcohol-De Quincey's work confronted, perhaps unwittingly, English men and women of that period with the consequences of drug use. Although opium usage was a common remedy for "sundry aches and pains," the Western world seemed to have been in a state of mass denial.

De Quincey's unsettling tale w ... read full excerpt from Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders ebook