Patients with substance abuse problems : effective identification, diagnosis, and treatment /

Nace, Edgar P., 1939-

Patients with substance abuse problems : effective identification, diagnosis, and treatment / Edgar P. Nace and Joyce A. Tinsley. - New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. - 224 p. ; 25 cm.

"A Norton professional book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.

Part I : Medical overview. Facing the challenge : patients with substance abuse problems -- Addiction : a disease of the reward pathway -- Denial : does the patient know something is wrong? -- Part II : Diagnostic and treatment issues. Steps to identification -- Diagnosis -- Treatment options -- Part III : Special topics. Substance abuse in adolescents -- Substance abuse in older adults -- Smoking -- Pharmacological treatment.

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Substance abuse.

RC564 / .N327 2007