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Preface

About the editors

About the contributors

PART 1 PRINCIPLES

Section Editor: Carolyn Day

Chapter 1 The history of psychoactive substance use and problems and of social responses to them
Robin Room

Chapter 2 The epidemiology of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use and their contribution to the burden of disease
Louisa Degenhardt, Carol Gartner, and Wayne D Hall

Chapter 3 Behavioural science and addiction
Robert West and Michael Farrell

Chapter 4 Public health responses to drug and alcohol use
Carolyn Day

Chapter 5 Legal framework
Sascha Callaghan

Chapter 6 Ethical issues in the addiction medicine and bioscience
Adrian Carter and Wayne D Hall

Chapter 7 Pathways of care
Lynda Berends

Chapter 8 Substance use in global context: drugs and conflict
Nadine Ezard

PART 2 CLINICAL AND OTHER CORE SKILLS

Section Editor: Paul Haber

Chapter 9 Clinical assessment
Alan Gijsbers

Chapter 10 Therapeutic relationship
Adrian J Dunlop, Natasha L Perry, and Maryanne Robinson

Chapter 11 Dancing in step – using psychological interventions throughout substance use disorder treatment
Danielle Florida and Lisa Juckes

Chapter 12 Screening and brief interventions
Robert Ali, Linda Gowing, and Jennifer Harland

Chapter 13 Drug testing and biomarkers of alcohol consumption
Philip Paull, Paul Haber, and Devanshi Seth

Chapter 14 Responsible prescribing
Bridin Murnion

Chapter 15 Medico-legal assessment and report writing in addiction medicine
Matthew Frei

PART 3 COMMON CLINICAL ISSUES

Section Editor: Michael Farrell

Chapter 16 Intoxication and overdose
Jonathan Brett and Andrew Dawson

Chapter 17 Withdrawal
Ken Curry and Gary Reynolds

Chapter 18 Mental health comorbidities
Glenys Dore

Chapter 19 Physical comorbidities
Robert G Batey and Sara E Mgaieth

Chapter 20 Pain management and pharmacological opioids
Milton Cohen

Chapter 21 Pregnancy, infant, and parenting
Ju-lee Oei, Adrienne Gordon, Natasha Perry, Joanne Ludlow, Lucinda Burns, Lucy Harvey-Dodds, and Adrian Dunlop

PART 4 SUBSTANCE SPECIFICS

Section Editor: Paul Haber

Chapter 22 Tobacco
Matthew Peters

Chapter 23 Alcohol use disorders
John B Saunders

Chapter 24 Opioids
Nickolas Lintzeris

Chapter 25 Cannabis
Shalini Arunogiri, Matthew Frei, and Dan I Lubman

Chapter 26 Stimulants, hallucinogens, and related drugs
Apo Demirkol

Chapter 27 Benzodiazepines
M Mofizul Islam and Paul Haber

Chapter 28 Volatile substance use
Paul Haber

PART 5 SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Section Editor: Michael Farrell

Chapter 29 Men and drugs
Craig Rodgers

Chapter 30 Women and drugs
Sharon Reid and Carolyn Day

Chapter 31 Adolescents
Yvonne Bonomo and Jennifer Sloane

Chapter 32 There’s a tear in my beer: issues for the older patient with alcohol and substance abuse
Carly Johnco, Adrienne Withall, and Brian Draper

Chapter 33 Drugs, alcohol, and prisoners
Michael H Levy

Chapter 34 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Kate Conigrave, Kylie Lee, and Bradley Freeburn

Chapter 35 Culturally and linguistically diverse groups
Nick Walsh

Chapter 36 People who inject drugs
Ingrid van Beek and Mihaela Ivan

Index

 

 

 

 

 
     
 
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