Addictions: a comprehensive guidebook

Ch. 1. Alcohol and drug use, abuse, and dependence: classification, prevalence, and comorbidity

Ch. 2. The course of treated and untreated substance use disorders: remission and resolution, relapse and mortality

Ch. 3. Theories of etiology of alcohol and other drug use disorders

Ch. 4. Alcohol

Ch. 5. Sedative-hypnotic and anxiolytic agents

Ch. 6. Stimulants: amphetamines and cocaine

Ch. 7. Cannabis and hallucinogens

Ch. 8. Opioids

Ch. 9. Nicotine

Ch. 10. Other drugs of abuse: inhalants, designer drugs, and steroids

Ch. 11. Assessment strategies and measures in addictive behaviors

Ch. 12. Treatment decision making and goal setting

Ch. 13. Enhancing motivation for treatment and change

Ch. 14. Behavioral and cognitive behavioral treatments

Ch. 15. The disease model

Ch. 16. Treatment models and methods: family models

Ch. 17. The therapeutic community treatment model

Ch. 18. Self-help groups for addictions

Ch. 19. Pharmacotherapies

Ch. 20. Relapse prevention: maintenance of change after initial treatment

Ch. 21. Treatment of drug and alcohol abuse: an overview of major strategies and effectiveness

Ch. 22. Legal and ethical issues

Ch. 23. Credentialing, documentation, and evaluation

Ch. 24. Interfaces between substance abuse treatment and other health and social systems

Ch. 25. Treatment of persons with dual diagnoses of substance use disorder and other psychological problems

Ch. 26. Age-limited populations: youth, adolescents, and older adults

Ch. 27. Ethnic and cultural minority groups

Ch. 28. Women

Ch. 29. Gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals

Ch. 30. Prevention aimed at individuals: an integrative transactional perspective

Ch. 31. Prevention aimed at the environment

Ch. 32. Economic issues and substance use.