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Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse

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Editors:
  1. George Serban

    1. Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Relationship of Biological Influences on the Subjective States of Addicts

    • William R. Martin
    Pages 1-7

  3. Opiate Receptors and Opioid Peptides: Are They Involved in Drug Addiction?

    • Eric J. Simon
    Pages 9-20

  4. Applications of Human Behavioral Pharmacology to the Problems of Drug Addicts: A Brief Review

    • Charles P. O’Brien, Joseph W. Ternes, Robert Greenstein, George E. Woody
    Pages 21-27

  5. Conditioned Taste Aversions and the Regulation of Drug-Taking Behavior

    • Ian P. Stolerman
    Pages 29-49

  6. Behavior in Excess: An Examination of the Volitional Disorders

    • S. Joseph Mulé
    Pages 51-58

  7. Maintenance of Behavior by “Schedules”: An Unfamiliar Contribution to Maintenance of Abuses

    • P. B. Dews
    Pages 59-66

  8. Some Endocrine and Immunological Observations In Heroin and Methadone Maintained Opioid Addicts

    • Paul Cushman Jr.
    Pages 67-75

  9. Multiple Opiate Receptors

    • R. Suzanne Zukin, Stephen R. Zukin
    Pages 77-88

  10. Behavioral Factors in Drug Dependence and Withdrawal: A Discussion

    • Steven M. Mirin
    Pages 89-92

  11. Epidemiology of the Current Heroin Crisis

    • Blanche Frank, Douglas S. Lipton
    Pages 93-99

  12. Empirical Patterns of Heroin Consumption Among Selected Street Heroin Users

    • Bruce D. Johnson
    Pages 101-123

  13. Social Stress and Drug Abuse

    • George Serban
    Pages 125-133

  14. Psychiatric Disorders in Treated Opiate Addicts

    • Bruce J. Rounsaville, Myrna M. Weissman, Herbert D. Kleber, Charles H. Wilber
    Pages 135-144

  15. Psychiatric Disorders in Treated Addicts: Discussion

    • George E. Woody
    Pages 145-155

  16. Naltrexone: Current Clinical Investigations

    • Harold M. Ginzburg, Robert A. Markowitz
    Pages 157-167

  17. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutic Use of the Narcotic Antagonist: Naltrexone

    • Karl Verebey
    Pages 169-183

  18. Detoxification from Methadone Maintenance: Current and Innovative Approaches

    • Herbert D. Kleber
    Pages 185-196

  19. Clonidine and Lofexidine: New Nonopiate Treatments for Opiate Withdrawal

    • Arnold M. Washton, Richard B. Resnick
    Pages 197-204

  20. The Swedish Methadone Maintenance Program

    • Lars M. Gunne, Leif Grönbladh
    Pages 205-213
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About this book

The phenomenon of drug abuse is part of the human experience that extends as far back in time as recorded history exists. Today, however, it has a new and much greater dramatic urgency. The reasons for this are multiple and worrisome. Last year, of the total of approximately 1.9 million total deaths that occurred in the United States, a conservative estimate is that more than one-quarter were premature deaths due to the addictive disorders. These include over 300,000 deaths related to cigarette smoking, which represents in many respects the prototypic addiction in this country; over 200,000 deaths related to alcohol, and many more related to mUltiple other drugs-licit and illicit-that are abused in this society. Twenty-five years ago, drug use was essentially unknown in our school age population. In 1960, a tragic increase of drug use in our young people began, so that by 1978 more high school seniors were current users of marijuana than of cigarettes. Despite the fact that the use of most drugs by high school populations appears to have peaked in the late 1970s and to be decreasing at the present time, most experts still believe that drug use by American young people represents the highest level of that found in any Western developed country.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA

    George Serban

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social and Medical Aspects of Drug Abuse

  • Editors: George Serban

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6320-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Spectrum Publications, Inc. 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-011-6322-4Published: 01 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-6320-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 244

  • Topics: Public Health

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

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