Cocaine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gold, Mark S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Medical Book Co., [1993]
Series:Drugs of abuse (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cocaine in the 1990s
  • Prevention: the best treatment
  • Persistance of substance abuse
  • Evolution of cocaine trafficking
  • Remaining challenges
  • History of cocaine
  • Cocaine "miracle" of the 19th century
  • First cocaine "crash"
  • Decline of cocaine use
  • 1960s
  • Evolution of cocaine use
  • Other forms of cocaine
  • Rise of polydrug abuse
  • Success of antidrug campaigns
  • Changes in youth attitudes
  • Changes in adult attitudes
  • Remaining challenges
  • Legalization debate
  • Neurobiology of cocaine
  • Role of reward in drug use
  • Stimulant reinforcement
  • Serotonin and other factors in stimulant reward
  • Nonpharmacological factors
  • Physiological aspects of drug memory
  • Effects of varying routes of administration
  • Rewarding effects of other drugs
  • Cannabis reinforcement
  • Opiate reinforcement
  • Learning as an outcome of reinforcement
  • Withdrawal
  • Role of craving in relapse
  • Other areas of interest
  • Nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in reward
  • Locus coeruleus in withdrawal
  • Clinical implications.
  • (cont) Clinical manifestations of cocaine abuse
  • Acute effects of cocaine
  • Chronic effects of cocaine
  • Medical complications of cocaine abuse
  • Cardiovascular complications
  • Respiratory complications
  • Neurotoxic effects
  • Impact on sexuality
  • Cocaine and AIDS
  • Other adverse effects
  • Cocaine and pregnancy
  • Cocaine and other psychiatric disorders
  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Medical complications of polydrug abuse
  • Routes of administration
  • Outpatient treatment
  • Cocaine treatment programs
  • Group therapy
  • Role of twelve-step (self-help) groups
  • Residential treatment
  • Follow-up care and family involvement
  • Inpatient treatment and relapse prevention
  • Benefits of inpatient care
  • Qualities of an inpatient program
  • Relapse prevention
  • Outcome of treatment
  • Problems with cocaine treatment
  • Pharmacological treatments
  • Pharmacological treatment of cocaine craving
  • Bromocriptine
  • Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
  • Carbamazepine
  • Buprenorphine
  • Naltrexone
  • Miscellaneous agents.
  • (cont) Role of drug testing
  • Evolution of drug testing
  • "Demographics" of drug testing
  • Most common forms of urinalysis
  • Immunoassay screens
  • Chromatographic screens
  • Confirmation tests
  • Evaluation of testing facilities
  • Eating disorders and substance abuse
  • Demographics of eating disorders
  • Theories behind the comorbidity of eating disorders and substance abuse
  • Common biological pathways for eating disorders and substance abuse
  • Treatment implications
  • Physicians, the elderly, adolescents and substance abuse
  • Medical profession
  • Drug use among medical students and residents
  • Drug use among physicians
  • Characteristics of the impaired physician
  • Identifying the impaired physician
  • Treating the substance-abusing physician
  • Elderly and substance abuse
  • Adolescents and substance abuse
  • Promoting cigarettes to adolescents
  • Family strategies in adolescent drug abuse
  • Treating the adolescent cocaine user
  • Multiple substances of abuse
  • Ecstasy
  • Methamphetamine ("Ice").