Full Description
This book serves as a tool for medical students, residents, fellows, and general psychiatrists looking for a clinically relevant and high-yield overview of addiction psychiatry in preparation for their board exams or for everyday clinical practice. It can be used as both a primary learning tool for those new to the field seeking a concise and broad overview, as well as a quick reference for those working in addiction treatment.
This completely updated edition contains new and expanded board-style review questions. Written by expert educators in addiction psychiatry, the text is organized by substances used and populations affected. In addition, the book covers key areas around addiction services and treatments; addiction laboratory medicine; co-occurring medical and psychiatric diagnoses; addiction evaluation, diagnosis, and psychosocial treatments; addiction epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology; addiction prevention, public health, and public policy; and legal and ethical considerations. Each chapter begins with summaries of high-yield clinical pearls and ends with board-style review questions.
Addiction Psychiatry for Clinical Practice and Review is an excellent resource for psychiatrists looking for a quick reference on addiction treatment and for all medical students, residents, fellows, and professionals taking certification exams in addiction, including those in psychiatry, addiction medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pain medicine, and others.
Contents
Part I Diagnosis, Treatment Modalities and Settings, Recovery.- Chapter 1 Health Services: Addiction Treatment Settings and Levels of Care.- Chapter 2 Laboratory, drug testing.- Chapter 3 Epidemiology, Genetics, and Neurobiology of Substance Use and Disorders.- Chapter 4 Screening (including psychometric testing), Evaluation and diagnosis of Substance Use Disorder.- Chapter 5 Non-pharmacologic Treatment across Substances: Psychotherapy and psychosocial treatments.- Chapter 6 Recovery from Addiction: Relapse Prevention and Treatment Monitoring.- Part II Addictions and their Treatments.- Chapter 7 Nicotine.- Chapter 8 Alcohol.- Chapter 9 Benzodiazepines and other Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics.- Chapter 10 Cannabis.- Chapter 11 Opioids.- Chapter 12 Stimulants: Cocaine, Amphetamines, and other Stimulants.- Chapter 13 Steroids, Dissociatives, Club Drugs, Inhalants, and Hallucinogens.- Chapter 14 Behavioral addictions.- Part III Populations.- Chapter 15 Adolescents and Students.- Chapter 16 Women and Pregnancy.- Chapter 17 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans (LGBT-QIA).- Chapter 18 Underserved Populations.- Chapter 19 Older Adults.- Chapter 20 Professionals.- Chapter 21 Co-occurring Medical Disorders.- Chapter 22 Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders.- Part IV Other Topics.- Chapter 23 Prevention, Public Health, and Public Policy.- Chapter 24 Ethical and Legal Considerations.- Part V Board-style Practice Exam.
