Cocaine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Plenum Medical Book Co.,
[1993]
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| Series: | Drugs of abuse (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 3. |
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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").