Table of Contents:
  • Section I Problems of Drug Dependence
  • 1 General Problems of Drug Abuse and Drug Dependence
  • Section II Morphine Dependence
  • 1 Neuropharmacology and Neurochemistry of Subjective Effects, Analgesia, Tolerance, and Dependence Produced by Narcotic Analgesics
  • 2 Assessment of the Abuse Potential of Narcotic Analgesics in Animals
  • 3 Assessment of the Abuse Potentiality of Morphinelike Drugs (Methods Used in Man)
  • 4 Psychiatric Treatment of Narcotic Addiction
  • 5 Chemotherapy of Narcotic Addiction
  • 6 Detection of Drugs of Abuse in Biological Fluids
  • Section III Sedative/Hypnotics and Alcohol Dependence
  • 1 The Pharmacology of Sedative/Hypnotics, Alcohol, and Anesthetics: Sites and Mechanisms of Action
  • 2 The Assessment of the Abuse Potentiality of Sedative/Hypnotics (Depressants). (Methods Used in Animals and Man)
  • 3 Clinical Aspects of Alcohol Dependence
  • 4 Abuse of Non-Narcotic Analgesics
  • Author Index.