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Drugs and Addictive Behaviour: A Guide to Treatment

This completely revised and updated third edition presents a comprehensive overview of substance misuse and dependence. The volume places a special emphasis on practical, evidence-based approaches to the assessment and management of a wide range of drug-related problems in a variety of clinical settings, and includes an entirely new chapter on alcohol abuse. The author defines all the terms and describes the effects of substance misuse on a patient’s life. Epidemiology, and international prevention and drug control policies are covered to address the global nature of the problem, and the appendix provides a series of clinical intervention tools, among them a Substance Misuse Assessment Questionnaire.

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Alcohol addiction needs proper medicinal treatment

One of the oldest addiction human beings have encountered is no doubt alcohol; it has been used for thousands of years and still taken by human beings nowadays. Alcohol is used as a recreational drink in parties, at home; it cannot be considered harmful in any way. The pleasure that alcohol consumption provides is the main reason why people take it. However, alcohol consumption can be fatal if a person starts taking it in huge amount daily. One of the main reasons for consuming huge quantity of alcohol is depression. When a person gets depressed or faces any sort of mental problems, alcohol helps a lot to suppress those problems. Such cases of alcohol abuse are largely seen nowadays and thousands of people from all over the world even die every year because of the harmful effects of alcohol. Human life has become pretty hard nowadays; people have to work real hard all day long to earn their living. Such pressure in daily life causes too much tension, which leads people to take large quantities of alcohol. Alcohol addiction is not as fatal as drug addiction, but it can be harmful if proper measures are not taken.

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Evidence-based Treatment for Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Research in the past decade has shown that substance abuse and substance dependence are treatable. The field has witnessed the introduction of evidence-based psychological and specific pharmacological treatments. Unfortunately, many of the empirical supported therapies for addictions are still not widely applied by practitioners. The third volume in the Practical Clinical Guidebooks Series (PCG), Evidence-Based Treatment in Substance Abuse and Dependence would encompass the developments in the field over the last decade, blending theory, techniques and clinical flexibility. The book will provide case illustrations on assessment as well as therapy, and will be suitable for practitioners and students training in clinical and counseling psychology, psychiatry, social work and related fields. The book would define the characteristics, classification, and prevalence of substance use disorders, and provide the clinician with practical guidelines applicable across a variety of treatment settings and patient groups.Drawing on the recent research in the field, the authors will provide the practicing clinician and student with an up-to-date understanding of the epidemiology, etiology, course and prognosis of substance abuse disorders that would be relevant to clinical practice. In addition to describing phenomenology and etiology, the book provides a comprehensive guide to the assessment and treatment of DSM-IV-TR substance abuse disorders (SUDs), including abuse and dependence of alcohol, stimulants, opiates, hallucinogens, cannabis/marijuana, sedative, and party drugs. Illustrative case histories will help the reader to understand the phenomenology and assessment of SUDs. Lastly, thepresentation of empirically-based therapeutic approaches will help the clinician to decide with treatment will match his/her patient’s needs.

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